Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, everybody: > > My friends in Ukraine are starting a research lab at a national > university and they asked what programs to use. I said "R" of course, > and they then asked me 'what support does it have for Cyrillic'? > > i've done some snooping in the R website and all the references i find > to foreign languages concern c and fortran, not Ukrainian or Russian. > Since i'm an English-only user, I have no idea what is involved here, or > what difficulties might be caused with non-English character sets and > file systems. > > Not to mention the problem that the documentation/manuals are in English. > > If you have any advice that I can collect up for my friends, I would > appreciate it.
Well, you're probably not going to find someone to translate the manual into Ukrainian outside Ukraine... The good news is that, due to our indefatigueable mr. Ripley, R-2.1.0 will have support for UTF-8, including Cyrillic. It will also have some support for message catalogs and the potential to change the GUI language. Check out the NEWS file in R-devel (https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/NEWS). -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
