[R] Month name in English, not R running language

[Marc Girondot]

It works perfectly:
 > Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_TIME", locale="en_GB.UTF-8")
[1] "en_GB.UTF-8"
 > x <- seq(from=as.Date("2000-04-01"), length.out=100, by=1)
 > y <- rnorm(length(x), 5,2)
 > plot(x, y)
 > Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_TIME", locale="")
[1] "fr_FR.UTF-8"

Thanks a lot

Marc

(I post the solution on the list as I have had some difficulties to find 
the good format for locale parameter. It could help others)

Le 15/01/13 07:41, Pascal Oettli a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> ?Sys.setlocale
>
> HTH,
> Pascal
>
> Le 15/01/2013 15:28, Marc Girondot a écrit :
>> When ploting a timeseries, the months are shown with abbreviation in the
>> current language of the system.
>> For example,
>> x <- seq(from=as.Date("2000-04-01"), length.out=100, by=1)
>> y <- rnorm(length(x), 5,2)
>> plot(x, y)
>>
>> Show for me "avi mai jui jul" as I use R with French language 
>> localization.
>>
>> I see in the Windows FAQ how to completely change the language of R, but
>> I search rather a way to change it for just the next command (also I run
>> R in MacOS !).
>>
>> The solution will be to make myself the axis... except if someone has
>> the trick to do it more easily.
>>
>> To generate the axis myself, it is not so simply to get one tick by
>> month. I try
>> axTicks(1) but it gives 5 ticks rather than 4
>>
>> and
>>
>>  > as.Date(axTicks(1), "1970-01-01")
>> [1] "2000-04-13" "2000-05-03" "2000-05-23" "2000-06-12" "2000-07-02"
>> Is not what I expected. Plot with date object seems to use a special way
>> to generate ticks.
>>
>> Thanks a lot
>>
>> Marc
>>
>>
>


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