Thanks. This helped greatly. I’m sorry about sending the html message, and
hope this one is plain-text. Dan.
On Feb 21, 2014, at 7:00 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 21/02/2014 10:40, Daniel Kelley wrote:
>> I’m wondering whether anyone can help me with a translation exercise. I
>> have a package named “oce”, which does oceanographic processing, and I’d
>> like to make it produce graphs with labels that work in different languages.
>> For example, in English I write “Depth” and in Spanish I’d like to write
>> “Profundidad”.
>>
>> In my “po” directory I have R-oce.pot and es.po. As a first step, I’ve
>> translated just the phrases “Depth (m)” and “Depth [m]”. Then I build and
>> installed my package. Within R,
>>
>> library(oce)
>> bindtextdomain("R-oce”)
>
> I don't think you know what that does. And do not post HTML (see the posting
> guide): you have ended up with an invalid directional quote in there.
>
>> yields
>>
>> [1] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.0/Resources/library/oce/po”
>>
>> and then, in the OSX shell,
>>
>> msgunfmt
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.0/Resources/library/oce/po/es/LC_MESSAGES/R-oce.mo
>> | grep -1 Depth
>>
>> yields
>> msgid "Depth (m)"
>> msgstr "Profundidad (m)"
>> --
>> --
>> msgid "Depth [m]"
>> msgstr "Profundidad [m]”
>>
>> so it seems that I have successfully installed the translations. Then, I
>> run R from the shell with
>>
>> LC_MESSAGES=es_ES.UTF-8 R --no-save < spanish.R
>>
>> where spanish.R consists of
>>
>> library(oce)
>> cat(gettext("Depth (m)"), "\n")
>
> Read the help:
>
> If ‘domain’ is ‘NULL’ or ‘""’, a domain is searched for based on
> the namespace which contains the function calling ‘gettext’ or
> ‘ngettext’.
>
> You are not calling this from a namespace and so need to specify the domain
> rather than the default of NULL.
>
> Example
>
> gettext("empty model supplied")
>
> > gettext("empty model supplied")
> [1] "empty model supplied"
> > Sys.setenv(LANGUAGE="fr")
> > gettext("empty model supplied")
> [1] "empty model supplied"
> > gettext("empty model supplied", domain = "R-stats")
> [1] "modèle fourni vide"
>
>> and I get
>>
>> ...
>> R es un software libre y viene sin GARANTIA ALGUNA.
>> ...
>>
>> (i.e. a Spanish introduction paragraph from R) which suggests that my
>> env-variable is OK, followed by
>>
>>> library(oce)
>> Loading required package: mapproj
>> Loading required package: maps
>>> cat(gettext("Depth (m)"), "\n")
>> Depth (m)
>>
>> which, obviously, has not translated the text. A similar test with
>>
>> LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 R --no-save < spanish.R
>>
>> yields the same results.
>>
>> All of this is with R 3.0.2 on an Apple OSX platform (Mavericks); session
>> info is below.
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)
>> locale:
>> [1] es_ES.UTF-8/es_ES.UTF-8/es_ES.UTF-8/C/es_ES.UTF-8/es_ES.UTF-8
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] oce_0.9-14 mapproj_1.2-1 maps_2.3-2
>>
>>
>> QUESTION: any hints on how I can get the translations to be passed through
>> gettext()?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> Dan E. Kelley, Professor and Graduate Coordinator
>> Oceanography Department, Dalhousie University
>> PO BOX 15000
>> Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
>> phone:(902)494-1694 fax:(…)-3877 dan.kel...@dal.ca<mailto:dan.kel...@dal.ca>
>> http://oceanography.dal.ca/person/Kelley_Dan.html
>> http://graduatecoordinator.oceanography.dal.ca/
>>
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