To all that replied, thanks... I have a clue where I can change the settings.
tnx,
Kurt Sys
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>Van
: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendieck at myway.com]>Verzonden
: woensdag
, januari
12, 2005 05:26 PM>Aan
: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>Onderwerp
: Re: [R] changing langage>
>Kurt Sys <kurt.sys <at> pandora.be> writes:
>
>:
>: Hi all,
>:
>: I've got a small, practical question, which untill now I couldn't
solve
>: (otherwhise I wouldn't mail it, right?) First of all, I'm talking
about
>: R 2.0.1 on a winxp system (using the default graphical interface being
>: 'Rgui').
>: When I make plots, using dates on the x-axis, it puts the labels in
>: Dutch, which is nice (since it's my mother tongue) unless I want them
in
>: English... Is there a way to change this behaviour? (Can I change the
>: labels etc to English?)
>
>
>Here is an example:
>
>R> Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", "en-us")
>[1] "English_United States.1252"
>R> format(ISOdate(2004,1:12,1),"%B")
> [1] "January" "February" "March"
"April" "May" "June"
> [7] "July" "August" "September"
"October" "November" "December"
>R> Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", "du-be")
>[1] "Dutch_Netherlands.1252"
>R> format(ISOdate(2004,1:12,1),"%B")
> [1] "januari" "februari" "maart"
"april" "mei" "juni"
> [7] "juli" "augustus" "september"
"oktober" "november" "december">
>R> R.version.string # XP
>[1] "R version 2.1.0, 2005-01-02"
>
>For more codes, google for:
>
> Microsoft language codes
>
>and look at the first result that is on a Microsoft site.
>
>This may or may not change your labels depending on precisely
>what you are doing.
>
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