R help - Dec 2007 - How can I change the language back to english?

I have reset my windows and re-installed R (I explicitly asked for english)
and although the windows XP version is in english I am having R display in
french. like:

"R est un logiciel libre livr? sans AUCUNE GARANTIE.
Vous pouvez le redistribuer sous certaines conditions.
Tapez 'license()' ou 'licence()' pour plus de d?tails.
R est un projet collaboratif avec de nombreux contributeurs.
Tapez 'contributors()' pour plus d'information et
'citation()' pour la fa?on de le citer dans les publications.
Tapez 'demo()' pour des d?monstrations, 'help()' pour l'aide
en ligne ou 'help.start()' pour obtenir l'aide au format HTML.
Tapez 'q()' pour quitter R."

I know I have an azerty french keyboard but even before the reset I had the
same azerty french
keyborad and the same XP settings and R was completely in english, now it's
annoyinly in french and reinstalling R again doesn't change it back to
english like I want it. how can I set it in english, I hate having my R
message in french. thanks.
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This is rw-FAQ Q3.2, Q3.4.

But the underlying problem is that Windows is telling R it is in French, 
and perhaps you need to sort that out.

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, francogrex wrote:
>
> I have reset my windows and re-installed R (I explicitly asked for english)
> and although the windows XP version is in english I am having R display in
> french. like:
>
> "R est un logiciel libre livr? sans AUCUNE GARANTIE.
> Vous pouvez le redistribuer sous certaines conditions.
> Tapez 'license()' ou 'licence()' pour plus de d?tails.
> R est un projet collaboratif avec de nombreux contributeurs.
> Tapez 'contributors()' pour plus d'information et
> 'citation()' pour la fa?on de le citer dans les publications.
> Tapez 'demo()' pour des d?monstrations, 'help()' pour
l'aide
> en ligne ou 'help.start()' pour obtenir l'aide au format HTML.
> Tapez 'q()' pour quitter R."
>
> I know I have an azerty french keyboard but even before the reset I had the
> same azerty french
> keyborad and the same XP settings and R was completely in english, now
it's
> annoyinly in french and reinstalling R again doesn't change it back to
> english like I want it. how can I set it in english, I hate having my R
> message in french. thanks.
>
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