Thank you very much! Replacing "R" with "LANG=de_CH.UTF-8 R" in the Lyx
preference file indeed solved my problem.
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:15:51 -0400
Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote:
On Mar 22, 2010, at 6:06 PM, Erich Studerus wrote:
I typed "export" into the mac terminal to see the setup of my system
variables. Under language I get LANG="de_CH.UTF-8". So it seems my system
variable for language is set up correctly.
Nope ;). I assume you're looking in Terminal which sets the LANG variable
according to its preferences - it is NOT set by the shell.
It doesn't make sense that Lyx would force C locale, although I don't know
where I can check this. I'm using the regular Lyx/Sweave setup described
here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxWithRThroughSweave
I dont have this locale problem on my Windows 7 computer. I don't
understand, why R can dectect the correct locale when started from the
terminal or as R.app but not from the shell. How do these running modes
differently look up environmental variables?
Both of them set LANG explicitly - it's that easy. Apparently LyX doesn't.
Again, you're barking up the wrong tree - it's not R's fault since R gives
you what you ask for - namely the C locale. If LyX uses a shell to run R,
it should be as easy as replacing "R" with "LANG=en_US.UTF-8 R" or
whichever you prefer. I don't use LyX so I don't know what where exactly
you have to change it. Note that the locale is NOT changed in the
system-wide startup scripts (by default).
Cheers,
Simon
Regards,
Erich
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:09:21 -0400
Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote:
On Mar 22, 2010, at 16:32 , Erich Studerus wrote:
Hello
I'm using Lyx with Sweave on Mac OS X 10.5.8 with R version 2.10.1. When
I compile Lyx documents, R is called from shell to process R code chunks
contained in the Lyx document. Unfortunately, R does not automatically
detect the correct locale when called from shell. I figured out that R
uses the C locale in shell mode by embedding the following code in Lyx
<<echo=F>>=
sys.getlocale()
@
When I start R from the terminal and also in the R.app I get the correct
locale:
de_CH.UTF-8/de_CH.UTF-8/C/C/de_CH.UTF-8/de_UTF-8
How I can I get the correct locale when calling R from shell?
Setup your environment accordingly? This has nothing to do with R but your
environment (LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_xxx) - which is what determines the
locale. The default locale settings are system-dependent, so either your
system default locale is C or Lyx forces C locale for the shell it starts.
For details on locale specifications see, e.g.:
http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/gettext/Locale-Environment-Variables.html#Locale-Environment-Variables
http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xbd/envvar.html
Cheers,
Simon
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