[R] Eclipse and R

[Sergey Goriatchev]

I tried with Sys.setenv() in Eclipse environment in the following manner:

> Sys.getenv("LANGUAGE")
LANGUAGE
      ""
> Sys.setenv(LANGUAGE="en")
> Sys.getenv("LANGUAGE")
LANGUAGE
    "en"

Once I've done this at the beginning of the session, warnings are in English.
When I exit Eclipse and then restart, it is back to German and
LANGUAGE environment variable is back to " ".

I am running R-2.7.1 on a Vista SP1 machine. I have Eclipse 3.4.0 with
StatET 0.6.0

I just tried to put a modified .RProfile file into Eclipse working
directory (I got that by typing getwd() at Eclipse prompt) and it
loads up (because I have fortunes() specified in .RProfile). In
.RProfile I put Sys.setenv(LANGUAGE="en") and it works to the extent
that warning messages are now in English, but at startup I still see
German text, like that:
----------------------------------
R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0

R ist freie Software und kommt OHNE JEGLICHE GARANTIE.
Sie sind eingeladen, es unter bestimmten Bedingungen weiter zu verbreiten.
Tippen Sie 'license()' or 'licence()' für Details dazu.

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Is there a way to make everything show in English?

Thank you all (especially Prof. Ripley) in advance for your help.

Sergey

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Most internationalized programs (including R) respond to the LANGUAGE
> environent variable: have you tried setting it to "en"?
>
> We would need to know your OS to help more (it looks like it might be
> Windows or possibly Mac OS: the terms used are not right for either).
>
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Sergey Goriatchev wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am running R in Eclipse, and when I start Eclipse or when I get
>> error messages, they are in German.
>> (My computer's regional language settings are German.) Is there a way
>> to switch to English in Eclipse
>> without changing my global regional language settings? In basic R GUI
>> this is possible in RGUI configuration editor.
>>
>> Anyone can help? Thank you in advance!
>>
>> Sergey
>>
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