Dear useRs

I need to do graphs with dates in different languages on Ubuntu.

In Windows the following will plot the date axis labels in Spanish:

random.dates <- as.Date("2001/1/1") + 70*sort(stats::runif(100))
>language <- "Spanish"
>Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", language)
>plot(random.dates, 1:100, xaxt="n")
>axis.Date(1, at=seq(as.Date("2001/1/1"), max(random.dates)+6, "weeks"))

Changing the language to "English" will have the same code produce a graph with English labels.
On Ubuntu, attempting to change the locale language results in an error message:
'OS reports request to set locale to "Spanish" cannot be honored'


Is there another way of changing the axis labels for dates to a different language on the fly?

Regards
Mikkel
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