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

[Omar André Gonzáles Díaz]

After, restarting PC I do get the months in spanish. Sorry for the hassle.

2017-06-05 15:01 GMT-05:00 Omar André Gonzáles Díaz <oma.gonzales at gmail.com>
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> Thank you Duncan and Rui for your time and interest in this issue.
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> Maybe it is a problem with Windows 7 and Spanish, and not Windows 10.
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> Let's wait for someone with the same enviroment, before assuming it's a
> problem with my PC/configuration.
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> 2017-06-05 14:37 GMT-05:00 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Duncan Murdoch
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>> On 05/06/2017 3:21 PM, Rui Barradas wrote:
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>>> Hello,
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>>> This doesn't answer the question, but in portuguese it works as expected.
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>>>  > 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.
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>>>> When using "weekdays" to extract days of week from a date column, I'm
>>>> getting the the days in spanish (as expected).
>>>>
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>>>> My understanding is that both work with local language. What may be
>>>> happening?
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>>>> 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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