  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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