Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team wrote: > >> Thanks. >> >> Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >>> >>> Which messages? R.app and R itself handle this differently for >>> their messages. >>> >>> You will find a discussion in the 'R Installation and >>> Administration' manual. You don't give an address, but I suspect >>> you are in a Spanish-speaking locale. I believe the Mac OS port of >>> R uses the stanard libintl from the R sources, in which case you can >>> read for yourself how libintl determines the message language in the >>> src/extra/intl directory. >> >> The cited discussion is useful even though the topic is still >> difficult for me. I am in Spain and in a Spanish locale. Mac >> preferences take care of it. By changing it to, for instance, an UK >> one together with English as language, shows all messages in English. >> As far as I can read in the manual, it is possible to overwrite the >> O.S. settings with startup options. I will try to do that after >> studying the documentation. > > Set the environment variable LANGUAGE to en. > >> There is still another problem related with fonts that is making me >> nuts: are fonts used for quartz() output independent from locale and >> language settings? For instances, any á, é, í or whatever accented >> vowel or ñ prevents the string containing this character for being >> rendered, for instance, in the labels of a barplot. >> >> Please, could you give me a path to solve this issue? > > Wrong list here, but again, likely to be a locale problem. The R > posting guide asks for the output of sessionInfo() for a good reason.
Thanks and, please, accept my apologies for not posting fully informative messages. Best regards, Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodríguez Your XEN ICT Team _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
