[R] Changing language of messages (was load tcltk)

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Thu Jan 10 16:54:52 CET 2008


On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Alberto Monteiro wrote:

[...]

> PS: is there any way to temporarily change the error messages
> from one language to another? When I get error messages
> in Portuguese it's a pain to translate them precisely to
> something that I can google or RSiteSearch to know what it means.

Usually Sys.setenv(LANGUAGE="en") works.  See the R-admin manual which 
tells you this and other ways.

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