[R] locale changing on Windows

[Gabor Grothendieck]

It can be done without setting locales using chron:

> library(chron)
> as.Date(chron("1970-Jan-01", format = "Year-Month-Day"))
[1] "1970-01-01"

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Ben Bolker<bbolker at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Dear r-helpers,
>
>  This is a little bit more of a Windows problem than
> an R problem, but ...
>
>  any idea how to query the *available* locales from
> within R (or otherwise) on a Windows system?  Teaching
> in a Spanish-language setting and would like to do
> something like
>
> Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME","en_US")
>
> (for example so that we can convert dates like
> "1970-jan-01" with as.Date(x,"%Y-%b-%d")
>
> but keep getting reports that this is not honored
> by the OS.  Does anyone have useful pointers?
>
>  thanks
>    Ben Bolker
>
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