LANGUAGE controls the language of message translations: see the R-admin
manual, which incidentally also points out you should not expect to change
that whilst R is running.
Second, your input dates are in English so you need English as the
language for your as.Date command. The following works
This works for me on my Windows XP system:
Sys.putenv("LANGUAGE"="FR"); Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL","FR")
On 4/24/06, Lapointe, Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How do you change the language of the labels in a graph. In this example, I
> want to get French labels by changing Sys.puten
Hello,
How do you change the language of the labels in a graph. In this example, I
want to get French labels by changing Sys.putenv. I should get "Mai"
instead of "May".
Sys.putenv(LANGUAGE="fr")
x <- as.Date(c("1jan1960", "2jan1960", "31mar1960", "30jul1960"), "%d%b%Y")
y <-1:4
plot(x,y)
Reg
