Set R 2.1.1. in English

OK. ??Perfectly clear.

This written for other listers:

Shortcut is the shortcuts ("alias") everybody use to launch applications
(in French: "raccourci"), and for suckers (as I am): one just have to
right-click the shortcut used to launch Rgui.exe, select properties
("propri??t??s" in French) and add in the box target ("cible" in French)
LANGUAGE=en to the path. In my case: C:\R\rw2011\bin\Rgui.exe. Thus, it
makes C:\R\rw2011\bin\Rgui.exe LANGUAGE=en. Then click OK.

It works fantastic!!!!

Thanks a lot for this. It makes three weeks I was grumling everytime
(often) I started R, and frustrated with the SDI mode...

Patrick Giraudoux



Prof Brian Ripley a ??crit :

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Patrick Giraudoux wrote:

(whish R
2.1.1 could be parametrise 'English' even with a French Windows XP!!!!)

If I understand you correctly, it can.  Just add LANGUAGE=en to the
shortcut.

Wonderful hope but not sure to catch what you term "shortcut". I
tried to add this command in C:\R\rw2011\etc\Rprofile, the .Rprofile
in the folder my documents, but this cannot be understood from
there...  which obviously shows that "shortcut" is not a general term
for profiles! I have also

See the rw-FAQ Q2.2.
`Shortcut' is the standard name for files on Windows with extension .lnk.

Another way is to add this to HOME/.Renviron: see the rw-FAQ Q2.17

unsuccessfully looked for a file "shortcut" in the rw2011 folder. I
also tried and went through the R-help archive. There were some
exchanges on this subject and Asian languages some weeks ago but what
I have tried and adapt on this basis did not work.

The objective would be to have R in  English (thus additionnally
allowing MDI mode with R-WinEdt, which is not the case with any other
language) and to keep Windows XP and other applications in the
foreign (= French, here) language.

Thanks for any further hint,

Patrick Giraudoux