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months not working with local language (weekdays does)

5 messages · Rui Barradas, Duncan Murdoch, Omar André Gonzáles Díaz

Omar André Gonzáles Díaz
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Hi,

I want to reporte some strange behaviour with the "months" function, from
base R.

When using "months" to extract months from a date column, I'm getting the
months in english, when I was expecting months in spanish.

When using "weekdays" to extract days of week from a date column, I'm
getting the the days in spanish (as expected).


My understanding is that both work with local language. What may be
happening?


My Session Info:

R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Spanish_Peru.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=Spanish_Peru.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=Spanish_Peru.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=Spanish_Peru.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets
[6] methods   base

other attached packages:
 [1] anytime_0.2.2      ggplot2_2.2.1.9000 lubridate_1.6.0
 [4] tidyr_0.6.3        rtweet_0.4.4       dplyr_0.5.0
 [7] Rfacebook_0.6.16   httpuv_1.3.3       rjson_0.2.15
[10] httr_1.2.1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] Rcpp_0.12.10     magrittr_1.5     devtools_1.13.2
 [4] munsell_0.4.3    colorspace_1.3-2 R6_2.2.0
 [7] rlang_0.1        plyr_1.8.4       stringr_1.2.0
[10] tools_3.4.0      grid_3.4.0       gtable_0.2.0
[13] DBI_0.6-1        git2r_0.18.0     withr_1.0.2
[16] openssl_0.9.6    lazyeval_0.2.0   assertthat_0.2.0
[19] digest_0.6.12    tibble_1.3.1     curl_2.6
[22] memoise_1.1.0    labeling_0.3     stringi_1.1.5
[25] compiler_3.4.0   scales_0.4.1     jsonlite_1.5
Rui Barradas
# 
Hello,

This doesn't answer the question, but in portuguese it works as expected.

 > x <- as.Date("2017-06-05")
 > months(x)
[1] "junho"
 > weekdays(x)
[1] "segunda-feira"
 > sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Portuguese_Portugal.1252 
LC_CTYPE=Portuguese_Portugal.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=Portuguese_Portugal.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C 

[5] LC_TIME=Portuguese_Portugal.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.4.0

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 05-06-2017 19:14, Omar Andr? Gonz?les D?az escreveu:
Duncan Murdoch
# 
For what it's worth, I tried setting my Region | Formats setting to 
Spanish (Peru) in Windows 10 Control Panel, and got Spanish weekday and 
month results.

I believe on Windows we use the Microsoft C strftime function to produce 
these strings, with the %A (for weekday) or %B (for month) formats.  So 
this question probably needs to be addressed to Microsoft.

Duncan Murdoch
On 05/06/2017 3:21 PM, Rui Barradas wrote:
Omar André Gonzáles Díaz
# 
Thank you Duncan and Rui for your time and interest in this issue.

Maybe it is a problem with Windows 7 and Spanish, and not Windows 10.

Let's wait for someone with the same enviroment, before assuming it's a
problem with my PC/configuration.











2017-06-05 14:37 GMT-05:00 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>:

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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After, restarting PC I do get the months in spanish. Sorry for the hassle.

2017-06-05 15:01 GMT-05:00 Omar Andr? Gonz?les D?az <oma.gonzales at gmail.com>
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