language

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team wrote:

Thanks.

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

Which messages?  R.app and R itself handle this differently for 
their messages.

You will find a discussion in the 'R Installation and 
Administration' manual.  You don't give an address, but I suspect 
you are in a Spanish-speaking locale.  I believe the Mac OS port of 
R uses the stanard libintl from the R sources, in which case you can 
read for yourself how libintl determines the message language in the 
src/extra/intl directory.

The cited discussion is useful even though the topic is still 
difficult for me. I am in Spain and in a Spanish locale. Mac 
preferences take care of it. By changing it to, for instance, an UK 
one together with English as language, shows all messages in English. 
As far as I can read in the manual, it is possible to overwrite the 
O.S. settings with startup options. I will try to do that after 
studying the documentation.

Set the environment variable LANGUAGE to en.

There is still another problem related with fonts that is making me 
nuts: are fonts used for quartz() output independent from locale and 
language settings? For instances, any ?, ?, ? or whatever accented 
vowel or ? prevents the string containing this character for being 
rendered, for instance, in the labels of a barplot.

Please, could you give me a path to solve this issue?

Wrong list here, but again, likely to be a locale problem.   The R 
posting guide asks for the output of sessionInfo() for a good reason.