[R-SIG-Mac] R locale on Mac OS X

[Kjell Konis]

I still run R in the terminal.  I had my LAND variable set to en which 
is why I wasn't getting English (it should have been LANG=en).  It's 
been set that way for over a year and this is the first oddity that has 
come up (:

You can probably reproduce the behavior by unsetting your LANG variable.

Here is a dump of my environment:

TERM_PROGRAM=Apple_Terminal
TERM=xterm-color
SHELL=/bin/bash
HISTSIZE=1000

TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION=100.1.4
HISTFILESIZE=0
USER=konis
__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0xBE8:0:0
PAGER=less
PATH=/opt/local/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

EDITOR=pico
FCEDIT=pico
LAND=en
PS1=[\h] \W>
SHLVL=1


LOGNAME=konis
CVS_RSH=ssh
VISUAL=pico

_=/usr/bin/env



Kjell

On Apr 27, 2005, at 3:07 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

>> I just built R 2.1.0 on my mini following all of the instructions on 
>> Stefano's site.  Now when I start R the initial message is in German 
>> but my workspace gets restored in Italian.  Errors and warnings are 
>> in German as well.
>
> As with all Mac posts nowadays - please tell us how exactly you use it 
> (Terminal, Emacs, R.app,...) which versions of the accompanying 
> programs etc.
>
> If you use R from (any) shell, regular unix rules apply - i.e. the 
> locale is determined by your environment settings. Therefore by 
> setting the local environment variables you choose the locale. Still, 
> I'm wondering how you get that mix of german and italian - I'd really 
> like to have steps to reproduce this.. dump of your environment vars 
> would be helpful..
>
> If you're using the GUI (R.app) then things are different. The GUI 
> uses your System Settings to set the locale - i.e. make sure you have 
> set both "Language" and "Formats" correctly. If you use the most 
> recent R.app from the SVN then you can set "ignore.system.locale" to 
> YES in "org.R-project.R" defaults to force english locale. In the case 
> you use R.app - what language are the menus in?