As far as I know the original solution uses the current locale, and mine
is just a much-simplified version of the same underlying call.
On 24 May 2004, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > >>>>> "Roger" == Roger D Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >>>>> on Mon, 24 May 2004 10:38:09 -0400 writes:
> >
> > Roger> How about `month.name'?
> >
> > English only.
> >
> > Note that he got the names in Danish (I think)
> > Martin
>
> Yep. Notice, however, that even with Brian's solution, you do need to
> set the locale first:
Just as you did with the original code, which gives English names on my
machine.
> > format(ISOdate(2004,1:12,1),"%B")
> [1] "January" "February" "March" "April" "May" "June"
> [7] "July" "August" "September" "October" "November" "December"
> > Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME","da_DK") ;format(ISOdate(2004,1:12,1),"%B")
> [1] "da_DK"
> [1] "januar" "februar" "marts" "april" "maj" "juni"
> [7] "juli" "august" "september" "oktober" "november" "december"
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