[R] locale changing on Windows

[Uwe Ligges]

Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> 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")

Ben,

try

Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", "en")

or

Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", "English_United States.1252")

Best,
Uwe


>> (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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