Dear Peter, congratulations. Looks very impressive. Seems like you guys in Denmark are very productive this time of the year. This brings me to my actual problem: isn't Lars Polifo a close relative of Rolf Poalis? Has there been any recent progress with the 'sas2r' parser? http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/04/0009.html
Best, Roland Peter Dalgaard wrote: > The R translation teams have done a great job in making R usable for > people who do not have English as their mother tongue. However, even > within English speaking countries, there are groups which have trouble > with the language, and it may be valuable to support the Sociolects of > these groups too. > Thanks to a generous contribution from Lars Polifo, these features will > be made available in an upcoming version of R. > > As it turns out, there are some particularly interesting challenges that > needs to be addressed. Consider for instance the translation of the t > test in the locale en_SF_US.UTF8 (notice the interjection of the code > "SF" to denote "San Fernando Valley") > > t.test(extra ~ group, oh, baby, data = sleep) > > Welch Two Sample t-test > > data: extra by group > t = -1.8608, like, df = 17.776, like, wow, p-value = 0.0794 > alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is like, ya know, not equal > to 0 > 95 percent confidence interval: > -3.3654832 0.2054832 > sample estimates: > mean in group 1 mean in group 2 > 0.75 2.33 > > > > Notice that in addition to the simple message string modifications, it > has been necessary to modify the parser so as to delete obviously > superfluous arguments such as "oh" or "baby" (a particular issue here is > that the argument "like" might actually be intended to mean likelihood). > Similarly, for se_KC_SE.UTF8 (KC for "kitchen") we have alternate > spellings of arguments like "data": > > t.test(ixtra ~ gruoop, deta = sleep) > > Velch Tvu Semple-a t-test > > deta: ixtra by gruoop > t = -1.8608, dff = 17.776, p-felooe-a = 0.0794 > elterneteefe-a hypuzeesees: trooe-a deefffference-a in meuns is nut iqooel tu > 0 > 95 percent cunffeedence-a interfel: > -3.3654832 0.2054832 > semple-a isteemetes: > meun in gruoop 1 meun in gruoop 2 > 0.75 2.33 > > Canadian English poses particular problems, which have not yet been > resolved. If we are to do it properly, it would entail modifications to > the R language itself. For instance we'd have to introduce a "four" loop > and change the end-brace to the four-character string "eh?}". > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
