[R] Help with setting locale

[Kim Titcombe]

Thanks for the tip!
Kim

On Fri, 14 Sep 2018, 17:51 David Winsemius, <dwinsemius using comcast.net> wrote:

>
> > On Sep 14, 2018, at 8:44 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius using comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On Sep 14, 2018, at 1:02 AM, Kim Titcombe <ktitcombe02 using gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> *Query or Set Aspects of the Locale*
> >>
> >> I have an issue with setting LOCALE in installation (new  installation
> on
> >> new computer but have installed and used R before).
> >>
> >> I am based in Switzerland but work in English (Windows in English),
> hence
> >> want English as default.
> >>
> >> Console contains following message:
> >>
> >> # During startup - Warning message:
> >>
> >> # Setting LC_CTYPE= failed
> >>
> >> -------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> Solutions I tried found on “help” and in R manual as follows….
> >>
> >> # Sys.getlocale(category = “LC_ALL”)
> >>
> >> 1]
> >>
> "LC_COLLATE=English_Switzerland.65001;LC_CTYPE=C;LC_MONETARY=English_Switzerland.65001;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_Switzerland.65001"
> >>
> >> # Sys.setlocale(category=”LC_ALL”, locale = “ “)
> >>
> >> or
> >>
> >> # Sys.setlocale(category=”LC_ALL”, local=”Switzerland.65001”)
> >>
> >> Output
> >>
> >> # OS reports request to set locale to "Switzerland.65001" cannot be
> honoured
> >>
> >> Tried various commands specific for 'LC_CTYPE' (as this is where
> >> installation failed) for language string such as
> >>
> >> # Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE","en-GB")
> >
> > You may get better results with an underscore rather than a dash.
> >
> > Try:
> >
> > Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE","en_GB")
> >
> >
> >
> > On my machine you can get the acceptable locale strings with:
> >
> > locales <- system("locale -a", intern = TRUE)
> > locales[ grep("GB",locales) ]  # Just the GB strings
> > [1] "en_GB"            "en_GB.ISO8859-1"  "en_GB.ISO8859-15"
> "en_GB.US-ASCII"   "en_GB.UTF-8"      "zh_CN.GB18030"    "zh_CN.GB2312"
> > [8] "zh_CN.GBK"
>
> I should have admitted that I use a Mac. If you use Windoze, then consult
> the MS authorities for naming. Perhaps this page:
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/Intl/language-identifier-constants-and-strings
> , which suggests to me using 'UK' rather than 'GB' might be needed and
> 'ENGLISH' rather than 'en'.
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Output:
> >>
> >> In Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", "en-GB") :
> >>
> >> OS reports request to set locale to "en-GB" cannot be honoured
> >>
> >> Would anyone have any further suggestions for correct command.
> >>
> >> With thanks
> >>
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> > David Winsemius
> > Alameda, CA, USA
> >
> > 'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.'
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> David Winsemius
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>
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