[R] Help, my RGui is speaking French!

[Peter Dalgaard]

"Grathwohl, Dominik, LAUSANNE,  NRC-BAS" <dominik.grathwohl at rdls.nestle.com> writes:

> Dear R-helpers,
> 
> First of all I have nothing against the French language!
> But now my problem, yesterday I installed R 2.1.1
> and I had to experience that my RGui is speaking French.
> My windows locals is French (Switzerland).
> I'm used to English and I want to reset my RGui to English.
> I was seeking for the solution in the archives,
> however not successfully.
> By the way the searchable archives via:
> http://www.r-project.org/, Mailing Lists, R-help, web-interface, searchable achieves,
> did not work: http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/
> Also I was seeking in the FAQ's 
> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html
> and
> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/R/rw-FAQ.html
> and could not find the solution.
> I'm sure that lots of people have queried already 
> and that the solution is already written down somewhere.
> However I cant find it.
> Could somebody give me a hint?

Make sure that the environment variable LANGUAGE is set to "en". I
think the consensus is that putting it into HOME/.Renviron is the most
practical way. 

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