Since a while ago, R on my Mac terminal is being started in Japanese:
R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20) -- "Eggshell Igloo"
Copyright (C) 2018 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
R ??????????????????????????
?????????????????????????????
?????????????'license()' ???? 'licence()' ??????????
Natural language support but running in an English locale
R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
'demo()' ???????????????????
'help()' ?????????????????
'help.start()' ? HTML ?????????????????
'q()' ?????? R ???????
I never gave it too much mind since I understand Japanese and am mostly
working in RStudio anyway (RStudio is in English). But I found a "bug" in
testthat's is_english (which tests whether the current session is reporting
base messages in English) and reported here:
https://github.com/r-lib/testthat/issues/879
I say "bug" because as near as I can tell is_english is built assuming the
logic laid out in ?gettext, ?locales. So even though my machine appears to
have none of the "symptoms" of a non-English locale, nevertheless I get
Japanese. My session info:
R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
Matrix products: default
BLAS:
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib
LAPACK:
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
locale:
[1] C/UTF-8/C/C/C/C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.5.2
My Sys.getenv() and "Languages & Region" settings are in the issue link.
Where else should I be looking in my R session or terminal to figure out
why it's in Japanese?
Mike C