R devel - Apr 2009 - RFC: Ability to suppress 'locale' from sessionInfo

The printing of the locale information from sessionInfo is not very tidy.
Using toLatex(sessionInfo) pretty much guarantees "badness" from
breaking
the margin boundary (though my version of TeX no longer reports such
errors).  A random example is here:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Matrix/vignettes/Design-issues.pdf

I find the locale information unnecessary and right now I hack this with
si = sessionInfo()
si$locale = "US"
toLatex(si)

I would like to be able to do something a bit cleaner, for example
sessionInfo(locale=FALSE)

For what it's worth, I don't think that early versions of sessionInfo
printed information about the locale.

Discussion welcome.

Kevin Wright

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>>>>> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:16:59 -0500,
>>>>> Kevin W (KW) wrote:
  > The printing of the locale information from sessionInfo is not very tidy.
  > Using toLatex(sessionInfo) pretty much guarantees "badness"
from breaking
  > the margin boundary (though my version of TeX no longer reports such
  > errors).  A random example is here:
  > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Matrix/vignettes/Design-issues.pdf

  > I find the locale information unnecessary and right now I hack this with
  > si = sessionInfo()
  > si$locale = "US"
  > toLatex(si)

  > I would like to be able to do something a bit cleaner, for example
  > sessionInfo(locale=FALSE)

  > For what it's worth, I don't think that early versions of
sessionInfo
  > printed information about the locale.

It went in on 2006-05-26, so it's bben there for some time now.
  

  > Discussion welcome.

I agree that it doesn't look nice in latex documents, but it is very
handy in bug reports.

Are there any objections if we add a locale argument to the toLatex()
method and let that default to FALSE?

Best,
Fritz