[R-sig-Debian] Changing locale?

[mat]

Thanks a lot Michael, it works! Really nice you searched for this 
problem, thanks!

Mat

Michael Rutter a écrit :
> Matthieu,
>
> Finally found the solution.  This is an Ubuntu issue, so this would
> effect other programs as well, but I was able to change the locale in
> R by doing the following:
>
> sudo gedit /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local
>
> Add "de_DE.utf8 UTF-8" to the file.  Save and exit.
>
> Then execute:
>
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
>
> This will take a minute or so.  I was then able to change locales in R
> without being root.  Full credit goes to this webpage:
>
> http://blog.andrewbeacock.com/2007/01/how-to-change-your-default-locale-on.html
>
> Michael
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Matthieu Stigler
> <matthieu.stigler at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> I need for a specific application to change the locale of R 2.9.2 in Ubuntu
>> 9.04. Trying the example in ?Sys.setlocale:
>> Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", "de_DE.utf8")
>> [1] ""
>> Warning message:
>> In Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", "de_DE.utf8") :
>>  la requête OS pour spécifier la localisation à "de_DE.utf8" n'a pas pu être
>> honorée
>>
>> I tried the code line for windows on R windows (Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME",
>> "German")) and it worked. Does it mean that the basic installation (from
>> ubuntu repo) does not provide those locales? Or did I do something wrong?
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
>> Matthieu
>>
>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24)
>> i486-pc-linux-gnu
>>
>> locale:
>> LC_CTYPE=C;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=C;LC_COLLATE=C;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=fr_FR.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_FR.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] Revobase_0.2-1
>>
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