I typed "export" into the mac terminal to see the setup of my system
variables. Under language I get LANG="de_CH.UTF-8". So it seems my system
variable for language is set up correctly.
It doesn't make sense that Lyx would force C locale, although I don't know
where I can check this. I'm using the regular Lyx/Sweave setup described
here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxWithRThroughSweave
I dont have this locale problem on my Windows 7 computer. I don't
understand, why R can dectect the correct locale when started from the
terminal or as R.app but not from the shell. How do these running modes
differently look up environmental variables?
Regards,
Erich
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:09:21 -0400
Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote:
On Mar 22, 2010, at 16:32 , Erich Studerus wrote:
Hello
I'm using Lyx with Sweave on Mac OS X 10.5.8 with R version 2.10.1.
When I compile Lyx documents, R is called from shell to process R
code chunks contained in the Lyx document. Unfortunately, R does not
automatically detect the correct locale when called from shell. I
figured out that R uses the C locale in shell mode by embedding the
following code in Lyx
<<echo=F>>=
sys.getlocale()
@
When I start R from the terminal and also in the R.app I get the
correct locale:
de_CH.UTF-8/de_CH.UTF-8/C/C/de_CH.UTF-8/de_UTF-8
How I can I get the correct locale when calling R from shell?
Setup your environment accordingly? This has nothing to do with R but
your environment (LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_xxx) - which is what determines the
locale. The default locale settings are system-dependent, so either your
system default locale is C or Lyx forces C locale for the shell it starts.
For details on locale specifications see, e.g.:
http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/gettext/Locale-Environment-Variables.html#Locale-Environment-Variables
http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xbd/envvar.html
Cheers,
Simon
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