[R] [R-SIG-Mac] language

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team]

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.

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 á, é, í or whatever accented vowel 
or ñ 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?

Thank you so much.

Best regards,

Ricardo
 

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Ricardo Rodríguez
Your XEN ICT Team