[R-sig-Debian] R CMD BATCH: set locale?

[Johannes Ranke]

Hi,

how about 

export LC_ALL=C

Sidenote: Maybe more a question for r-help as it is not Debian specific?

Kind regards,

Johannes

Am Mittwoch 24 Oktober 2012, 20:32:22 schrieb Matthieu Stigler:
> Hi
> 
> I would like to change the locale when using R CMD BATCH. Usually, if I
> want to run it in english, for R in console/GUIs, I edit the .Rprofile
> file, adding:
> Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL","en_US.UTF8")
> Sys.setlocale("LC_MESSAGES","en_US.UTF8")
> 
> But while this works for interactive R, it does not for R CMD BATCH. The
> problem is that running tests for a package, these are run in a non-english
> locale, but R CMD check runs them in english locale, giving me messages
> about mismatches between *.R and *.Rout.save like:
> < Warning messages:
> ---
> 
> > Messages d'avis :
> Does anyone know how to specify the locale for R CMD BATCH? Is'nt it
> supposed to read the .Rprofile? It seems R CMD BATCH should, given that
> there is the option not to read it... (cf. --no-init-file)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Matthieu
> 
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