[R] Internalization of help pages

[Bert Gunter]

Tomáš

1.  Your concern is valid, especially now that R has become so widely
used throughout the world. But language translation is hard.

2. Warning and error messages are short, and relatively trivial to translate.

3. There are tens of thousands of Help pages in thousands of packages,
most separately maintained.

I would guess that the best option would be to try to run the files
through a mature, open source translator, if such exists. However, I'm
ignorant of such matters. And my understanding is that at present,
even the best may not be adequate (Help files have to accurate in
exact detail).



Best,
Bert

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Tomáš Greif
<tomas.greif at collectionspro.eu> wrote:
> Is it possible to translate help files? I see there are some localization
> options for GUI, but not for help. I think this would be really helpful for
> users who don't have English as their primary language.
>
> Because all the online help is created from text files, it should be not
> that difficult to maintain different language versions (e.g. to mark them
> as not valid when primary documentation in English changes).
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomas Greif
>
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