[R-SIG-Mac] language

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I understand the when running R under Mac OS X, it takes the default 
> language set for the O.S. I am running R here on a MacBook with English 
> in the top position in Languages preference list and messages are showed 
> in Spanish. Please, why? where am I wrong?

Which messages?  R.app and R itself handle this differently for their 
messages.

You will find a discussion in the 'R Installation and Administration' 
manual.  You don't give an address, but I suspect you are in a 
Spanish-speaking locale.  I believe the Mac OS port of R uses the stanard 
libintl from the R sources, in which case you can read for yourself how 
libintl determines the message language in the src/extra/intl directory.

>
> Thanks!
>
> Working with R GUI 1.24-devel (5072) and...
>
> > version
>               _
> platform       i386-apple-darwin9.2.2
> arch           i386
> os             darwin9.2.2
> system         i386, darwin9.2.2
> status         beta
> major          2
> minor          7.0
> year           2008
> month          04
> day            12
> svn rev        45280
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.7.0 beta (2008-04-12 r45280)
> >
>
> --
> Ricardo Rodríguez
> Your XEN ICT Team
>
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