Re: [R] Fwd: Re: East Asian language

2005-07-15 Thread Pingping Zheng
I'm not sure what other applications use environment variable like "LANGUAGE". I'm sorry I was so assertive. However, what I said is right in the sense that environment variables are supposed to be used NOT by one specific application. I happen to use lots of GnuWin32 and Cygwin applications such a

Re: [R] Fwd: Re: East Asian language

2005-07-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Uwe Ligges wrote: > Pingping Zheng wrote: > >> I think what Nan Lin wanted is "How to change the language used in R >> console by re-setting something within R?" >> >> For a non-english user, sometime we prefer to set the system default >> language to a native one and use engl

Re: [R] Fwd: Re: East Asian language

2005-07-15 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I am not sure how generally this works but I was able to get it to switch >> back and forth between two languages within a single R >> session like this: The posting guide does ask people to read the

Re: [R] Fwd: Re: East Asian language

2005-07-15 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am not sure how generally this works but I was able to get it to switch > back and forth between two languages within a single R > session like this: > > > Sys.getenv("LANGUAGE") > LANGUAGE > "" > > q() # note English prompt; c means conti

Re: [R] Fwd: Re: East Asian language

2005-07-15 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I am not sure how generally this works but I was able to get it to switch back and forth between two languages within a single R session like this: > Sys.getenv("LANGUAGE") LANGUAGE "" > q() # note English prompt; c means continue rather than exiting Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: c > Sys.p

Re: [R] Fwd: Re: East Asian language

2005-07-15 Thread Pingping Zheng
That's pretty convenient. Set LANGUAGE in .Renviron under current directory is convenient for both Linux and windows users. Thanks. Pingping Zheng Department of Mathematics and Statistics Fylde College Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YF UK Uwe Ligges wrote: > Pingping Zheng wrote: > > >>D

Re: [R] Fwd: Re: East Asian language

2005-07-15 Thread Uwe Ligges
Pingping Zheng wrote: > Dear all, > > I think what Nan Lin wanted is "How to change the language used in R > console by re-setting something within R?" > > For a non-english user, sometime we prefer to set the system default > language to a native one and use english in individual programs when

Re: [R] Fwd: Re: East Asian language

2005-07-15 Thread Pingping Zheng
Dear all, I think what Nan Lin wanted is "How to change the language used in R console by re-setting something within R?" For a non-english user, sometime we prefer to set the system default language to a native one and use english in individual programs when we think necessary. a) setting the e

Re: [R] Fwd: Re: East Asian language

2005-07-14 Thread Uwe Ligges
Baoqiang Cao wrote: > > Original message > >>Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:50:41 +0200 >>From: Uwe Ligges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: [R] East Asian language >>To: Nan Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch >> >>Nan Lin wrote: >> >> >>>Dear all, >>> >>>I just ins

[R] Fwd: Re: East Asian language

2005-07-14 Thread Baoqiang Cao
Original message >Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:50:41 +0200 >From: Uwe Ligges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [R] East Asian language >To: Nan Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > >Nan Lin wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I just installed R 2.1.1. The installation progr