[R] Help with setting locale

[David Winsemius]

> On Sep 14, 2018, at 8:44 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius using comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Sep 14, 2018, at 1:02 AM, Kim Titcombe <ktitcombe02 using 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'.


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> 
> 
>> 
>> 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
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