[Rd] R_PAPERSIZE and LC_PAPER

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:

> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> <snipped>
>> It does not exist in any system at present (not even mine): just an idea in 
>> my head to represent the default found at configure time.
>> 
>> In some sense LC_PAPER is set on FC3:
>> 
>> gannet% locale -ck LC_PAPER
>> LC_PAPER
>> height=297
>> width=210
>> paper-codeset="ISO-8859-1"
>> 
>> and it is unsupported on Solaris 8.  And
>> 
>>> Sys.getlocale("LC_PAPER")
>> [1] "en_GB"
>> 
>> in the system I am prototyping just now.
>
> Just to chip in on the discussion - on FC5,
>
> $ locale -ck LC_PAPER
> LC_PAPER
> height=279
> width=216
> paper-codeset="UTF-8"
>
> $ echo $LANG
> en_US.UTF-8
>
> (hmm, I must have made a mistake somewhere - would prefer "en_GB").
>
> R 2.2.1 currently on my system (built on FC4 before I ungraded to FC5).
>> Sys.getlocale("LC_PAPER")
> Error in Sys.getlocale("LC_PAPER") : invalid 'category' argument

Yes, that only works in R-devel (2.4.0 to be).

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