R devel - Jun 2005 - Cannot choose language for installing (PR#7971)

Full_Name: Jiancang Zhuang
Version: R 2.1.1
OS: windows xp
Submission from: (NULL) (133.58.102.66)


I tried to install R.2.1.1 into my windows xp system. The system is Japanese
version. But I set the unicode fonts to be Chinese to for some important
programme. No matter how I choose the language during the installation, I always
get an R of Japanese version.

zhuangjc at ism.ac.jp wrote:
> Full_Name: Jiancang Zhuang
> Version: R 2.1.1
> OS: windows xp
> Submission from: (NULL) (133.58.102.66)
> 
> 
> I tried to install R.2.1.1 into my windows xp system. The system is
Japanese
> version. But I set the unicode fonts to be Chinese to for some important
> programme. No matter how I choose the language during the installation, I
always
> get an R of Japanese version.

This is not a bug, AFAICS.
During installation you choose the language of the setup program, not R 
itself. To "get" a non-Japanese version of R, you can define, e.g., an
environment variable
   LANGUAGE=en

Uwe Ligges

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The language of the installer is completely unrelated to the language 
used to run R.

This is not a bug: to use R in Chinese, you need to select Chinese as 
the language to use: see the `R Installation and Administration manual'.
This should happen automatically if Windows is set to Simplified Chinese.

What do you actually want to do?  If you want to run R in English,, set
LANAGAGE=en.


On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 zhuangjc at ism.ac.jp wrote:
> Full_Name: Jiancang Zhuang
> Version: R 2.1.1
> OS: windows xp
> Submission from: (NULL) (133.58.102.66)
>
>
> I tried to install R.2.1.1 into my windows xp system. The system is 
> Japanese version. But I set the unicode fonts to be Chinese to for some 
> important programme. No matter how I choose the language during the 
> installation, I always get an R of Japanese version.

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