R locale on Mac OS X

Hi Kjell,

I just built R 2.1.0 on my mini following all of the instructions  
on Stefano's site.  Now when I start R the initial message is in  
German but my workspace gets restored in Italian.  Errors and  
warnings are in German as well.

As with all Mac posts nowadays - please tell us how exactly you use  
it (Terminal, Emacs, R.app,...) which versions of the accompanying  
programs etc.

If you use R from (any) shell, regular unix rules apply - i.e. the  
locale is determined by your environment settings. Therefore by  
setting the local environment variables you choose the locale. Still,  
I'm wondering how you get that mix of german and italian - I'd really  
like to have steps to reproduce this.. dump of your environment vars  
would be helpful..

If you're using the GUI (R.app) then things are different. The GUI  
uses your System Settings to set the locale - i.e. make sure you have  
set both "Language" and "Formats" correctly. If you use the most  
recent R.app from the SVN then you can set "ignore.system.locale" to  
YES in "org.R-project.R" defaults to force english locale. In the  
case you use R.app - what language are the menus in?

Cheers,
Simon

I still run R in the terminal.  I had my LAND variable set to en which 
is why I wasn't getting English (it should have been LANG=en).  It's 
been set that way for over a year and this is the first oddity that has 
come up (:

You can probably reproduce the behavior by unsetting your LANG variable.

Here is a dump of my environment:

TERM_PROGRAM=Apple_Terminal
TERM=xterm-color
SHELL=/bin/bash
HISTSIZE=1000

TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION=100.1.4
HISTFILESIZE=0
USER=konis
__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0xBE8:0:0
PAGER=less
PATH=/opt/local/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

EDITOR=pico
FCEDIT=pico
LAND=en
PS1=[\h] \W>
SHLVL=1


LOGNAME=konis
CVS_RSH=ssh
VISUAL=pico

_=/usr/bin/env



Kjell

I just built R 2.1.0 on my mini following all of the instructions on 
Stefano's site.  Now when I start R the initial message is in German 
but my workspace gets restored in Italian.  Errors and warnings are 
in German as well.

As with all Mac posts nowadays - please tell us how exactly you use it 
(Terminal, Emacs, R.app,...) which versions of the accompanying 
programs etc.

If you use R from (any) shell, regular unix rules apply - i.e. the 
locale is determined by your environment settings. Therefore by 
setting the local environment variables you choose the locale. Still, 
I'm wondering how you get that mix of german and italian - I'd really 
like to have steps to reproduce this.. dump of your environment vars 
would be helpful..

If you're using the GUI (R.app) then things are different. The GUI 
uses your System Settings to set the locale - i.e. make sure you have 
set both "Language" and "Formats" correctly. If you use the most 
recent R.app from the SVN then you can set "ignore.system.locale" to 
YES in "org.R-project.R" defaults to force english locale. In the case 
you use R.app - what language are the menus in?