Wrong locale when using R from shell
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