[R] [R-SIG-Mac] language

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team wrote:

> Thanks.
>
> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> 
>> Which messages?  R.app and R itself handle this differently for their 
>> messages.
>> 
>> You will find a discussion in the 'R Installation and Administration' 
>> manual.  You don't give an address, but I suspect you are in a 
>> Spanish-speaking locale.  I believe the Mac OS port of R uses the stanard 
>> libintl from the R sources, in which case you can read for yourself how 
>> libintl determines the message language in the src/extra/intl directory.
>
> The cited discussion is useful even though the topic is still difficult for 
> me. I am in Spain and in a Spanish locale. Mac preferences take care of it. 
> By changing it to, for instance, an UK one together with English as language, 
> shows all messages in English. As far as I can read in the manual, it is 
> possible to overwrite the O.S. settings with startup options. I will try to 
> do that after studying the documentation.

Set the environment variable LANGUAGE to en.

> There is still another problem related with fonts that is making me nuts: are 
> fonts used for quartz() output independent from locale and language settings? 
> For instances, any á, é, í or whatever accented vowel or ñ prevents the 
> string containing this character for being rendered, for instance, in the 
> labels of a barplot.
>
> Please, could you give me a path to solve this issue?

Wrong list here, but again, likely to be a locale problem.   The R posting 
guide asks for the output of sessionInfo() for a good reason.

>
> Thank you so much.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ricardo
>
>
> -- 
> Ricardo Rodríguez
> Your XEN ICT Team
>

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