[R] months not working with local language (weekdays does)

[Omar André Gonzáles Díaz]

Thank you Duncan and Rui for your time and interest in this issue.

Maybe it is a problem with Windows 7 and Spanish, and not Windows 10.

Let's wait for someone with the same enviroment, before assuming it's a
problem with my PC/configuration.











2017-06-05 14:37 GMT-05:00 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>:

> For what it's worth, I tried setting my Region | Formats setting to
> Spanish (Peru) in Windows 10 Control Panel, and got Spanish weekday and
> month results.
>
> I believe on Windows we use the Microsoft C strftime function to produce
> these strings, with the %A (for weekday) or %B (for month) formats.  So
> this question probably needs to be addressed to Microsoft.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
> On 05/06/2017 3:21 PM, Rui Barradas wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> This doesn't answer the question, but in portuguese it works as expected.
>>
>>  > x <- as.Date("2017-06-05")
>>  > months(x)
>> [1] "junho"
>>  > weekdays(x)
>> [1] "segunda-feira"
>>  > sessionInfo()
>> R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21)
>> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>> Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
>>
>> Matrix products: default
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_COLLATE=Portuguese_Portugal.1252
>> LC_CTYPE=Portuguese_Portugal.1252
>> [3] LC_MONETARY=Portuguese_Portugal.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
>>
>> [5] LC_TIME=Portuguese_Portugal.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] compiler_3.4.0
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Rui Barradas
>>
>> Em 05-06-2017 19:14, Omar André Gonzáles Díaz escreveu:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I want to reporte some strange behaviour with the "months" function, from
>>> base R.
>>>
>>> When using "months" to extract months from a date column, I'm getting the
>>> months in english, when I was expecting months in spanish.
>>>
>>> When using "weekdays" to extract days of week from a date column, I'm
>>> getting the the days in spanish (as expected).
>>>
>>>
>>> My understanding is that both work with local language. What may be
>>> happening?
>>>
>>>
>>> My Session Info:
>>>
>>> R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21)
>>> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>>> Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
>>>
>>> Matrix products: default
>>>
>>> locale:
>>> [1] LC_COLLATE=Spanish_Peru.1252
>>> [2] LC_CTYPE=Spanish_Peru.1252
>>> [3] LC_MONETARY=Spanish_Peru.1252
>>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
>>> [5] LC_TIME=Spanish_Peru.1252
>>>
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets
>>> [6] methods   base
>>>
>>> other attached packages:
>>>   [1] anytime_0.2.2      ggplot2_2.2.1.9000 lubridate_1.6.0
>>>   [4] tidyr_0.6.3        rtweet_0.4.4       dplyr_0.5.0
>>>   [7] Rfacebook_0.6.16   httpuv_1.3.3       rjson_0.2.15
>>> [10] httr_1.2.1
>>>
>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>   [1] Rcpp_0.12.10     magrittr_1.5     devtools_1.13.2
>>>   [4] munsell_0.4.3    colorspace_1.3-2 R6_2.2.0
>>>   [7] rlang_0.1        plyr_1.8.4       stringr_1.2.0
>>> [10] tools_3.4.0      grid_3.4.0       gtable_0.2.0
>>> [13] DBI_0.6-1        git2r_0.18.0     withr_1.0.2
>>> [16] openssl_0.9.6    lazyeval_0.2.0   assertthat_0.2.0
>>> [19] digest_0.6.12    tibble_1.3.1     curl_2.6
>>> [22] memoise_1.1.0    labeling_0.3     stringi_1.1.5
>>> [25] compiler_3.4.0   scales_0.4.1     jsonlite_1.5
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