[R] Help with setting locale

David Winsemius
2018-09-14T15:51:19Z

> On Sep 14, 2018, at 8:44 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at
comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
>> On Sep 14, 2018, at 1:02 AM, Kim Titcombe <ktitcombe02 at
gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> *Query or Set Aspects of the Locale*
>>
>> I have an issue with setting LOCALE in installation (new  installation
on
>> new computer but have installed and used R before).
>>
>> I am based in Switzerland but work in English (Windows in English),
hence
>> want English as default.
>>
>> Console contains following message:
>>
>> # During startup - Warning message:
>>
>> # Setting LC_CTYPE= failed
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Solutions I tried found on ?help? and in R manual as follows?.
>>
>> # Sys.getlocale(category = ?LC_ALL?)
>>
>> 1]
>>
"LC_COLLATE=English_Switzerland.65001;LC_CTYPE=C;LC_MONETARY=English_Switzerland.65001;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_Switzerland.65001"
>>
>> # Sys.setlocale(category=?LC_ALL?, locale = ? ?)
>>
>> or
>>
>> # Sys.setlocale(category=?LC_ALL?, local=?Switzerland.65001?)
>>
>> Output
>>
>> # OS reports request to set locale to "Switzerland.65001"
cannot be honoured
>>
>> Tried various commands specific for 'LC_CTYPE' (as this is
where
>> installation failed) for language string such as
>>
>> # Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE","en-GB")
>
> You may get better results with an underscore rather than a dash.
>
> Try:
>
> Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE","en_GB")
>
>
>
> On my machine you can get the acceptable locale strings with:
>
> locales <- system("locale -a", intern = TRUE)
> locales[ grep("GB",locales) ]  # Just the GB strings
> [1] "en_GB"            "en_GB.ISO8859-1"
"en_GB.ISO8859-15" "en_GB.US-ASCII"
"en_GB.UTF-8"      "zh_CN.GB18030"
"zh_CN.GB2312"
> [8] "zh_CN.GBK"

I should have admitted that I use a Mac. If you use Windoze, then consult the MS
authorities for naming. Perhaps this page:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/Intl/language-identifier-constants-and-strings
, which suggests to me using 'UK' rather than 'GB' might be
needed and 'ENGLISH' rather than 'en'.


>
>
>
>>
>> Output:
>>
>> In Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", "en-GB") :
>>
>> OS reports request to set locale to "en-GB" cannot be
honoured
>>
>> Would anyone have any further suggestions for correct command.
>>
>> With thanks
>>
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>
> David Winsemius
> Alameda, CA, USA
>
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA

'Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.'
-Gehm's Corollary to Clarke's Third Law