On Aug 1, 2005, at 10:20 AM, John Fox wrote:
> Is there a platform-independent way to test whether R is running in
> an English locale?
I suppose the following should work:
Sys.getlocale("LC_CTYPE")=="C" || length(grep("^en",Sys.getlocale
("LC_CTYPE"),TRUE))>0
Basically unix platforms will have "C" or "en_..."; Windows has
"English...". You could make the check more strict depending on the
platform if desired ..
Cheers,
Simon
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