How to change language settings in R

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My error messages are displayed in French  How can I change my system language setting so the error messages will be displayed in English

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on windows  when you have no admin right  just create a new program shortcut to Rgui exe  Then in the properties of that shortcut  go to the  Shortcut  tab and modify the target to include the system language of your choice  e g   C  Program Files R R-3 5 3 bin x64 Rgui exe  LANGUAGE en

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In the case of RStudio for Windows I succeeded in changing the language following the instructions found in R for Windows FAQ  in particular I wrote   language   EN   inside the file Rconsole  in my installation it is C  Program Files R R-2 15 2 etc Rconsole   this works also for the command Rscript   For example you can locate the Rconsole file with this two commands from a command prompt   cd    dir Rconsole  s  The first one make the root as the current directory  the second one looks for the Rconsole file   In the following screenshot you have that Rconsole file is in the folder C  Program Files R R-3 4 1 etc   You may have more than one location  in that case you may edit all the Rconsole files     After that you can open the Rconsole file with your favorite editor and look for the line language   and then append EN at the end of that line   In the following screenshot the interesting line is the number 70 and you have to append EN at the end of it

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you simply have to change the basic language of microsoft on your computer   press the windows button together with r  and tip the following code into the window that is opened   control exe  name Microsoft Language   load the language package you want to use and change the options  but take care  this will change also your keyboard layout

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In Ubuntu 14 04 LTS I had to remove the   from the comment  LANGUAGE EN  All other options din not work for me

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This works from command line      export LANG en US UTF-8   None of the other answers above worked for me

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type this first  system  defaults write org R-project R force LANG en US UTF-8   then you will get a index number in my case is 127   then type   Sys setenv LANG    en   then type the number and ENTER 127

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If you want to change R s language in terminal to English forever  this works fine for me in macOS   Open terminal app  and say   touch  bash profile   Then say   open -a TextEdit app  bash profile   These two commands will help you open   bash profile  file in TextEdit   Add this to   bash profile  file   export LANG en US UTF-8   Then save the file  reopen terminal and type R  you will find it s language has changed to english   If you want language come back to it s original  just simply add a   before export LANG en US UTF-8

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Im using R Studio on a Mac and I couldn t find the Rconsole file  So I took a more brutal way and just deleted the unwanted language files from the R app  You just have to go to your Rapp in your application Folder  right click  show package content then  contents Resources   There are the language files e g  English lproj or in my case de lproj wich I deleted  After restarting R  error messages appear in English   Maybe thats helpful

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If you use Ubuntu you will set  LANGUAGE en    in  etc R Renviron site

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For mac users  I found this on the R for Mac FAQ     If you use a non-standard setup  e g  different language than   formats   you can override the auto-detection performed by setting    force LANG  defaults setting  such as for example   defaults write org R-project R force LANG en US UTF-8        when run in Terminal it will enforce US-english setting regardless of the system   setting  If you don t know what Terminal is you can use this R command   instead    system  defaults write org R-project R force LANG en US UTF-8          but do not forget to quit R and start R app again afterwards  Please   note that you must always use   UTF-8  version of the locale    otherwise R app will not work properly    This helped me to change my console language from Chinese to English

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You can set this using the Sys setenv   function  My R session defaults to English  so I ll set it to French and then back again    gt  Sys setenv LANG    fr    gt  2   x Erreur   objet  x  introuvable  gt  Sys setenv LANG    en    gt  2   x Error  object  x  not found   A list of the abbreviations can be found here   Sys getenv   gives you a list of all the environment variables that are set

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A simple solution would be setting export Lang C in your bash script  I had a similar issue where the default language was german so it reverted back to english

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The only thing that worked for me was uninstalling R entirely  make sure to remove it from the Programs files as well   and install it  but unselect Message Translations during the installation process  When I installed R  and subsequently RCmdr  it finally came up in English

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You may also want to be aware of the difference between  for example  Sys setenv LANG    ru   and Sys setlocale locale    ru RU utf8       gt  Sys setlocale locale    ru RU utf8    1   LC CTYPE ru RU utf8 LC NUMERIC C LC TIME ru RU utf8 LC COLLATE ru RU utf8 LC MONETARY ru RU utf8 LC MESSAGES en IE utf8 LC PAPER en IE utf8 LC NAME en IE utf8 LC ADDRESS en IE utf8 LC TELEPHONE en IE utf8 LC MEASUREMENT en IE utf8 LC IDENTIFICATION en IE utf8    If you are interested in changing the behaviour of functions that refer to one of these elements  e g strptime to extract dates   you should use Sys setlocale    See  Sys setlocale for more details  In order to see all available languages on a linux system  you can run  system  locale -a   intern   TRUE

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For me worked   Sys setlocale  LC MESSAGES    en US utf8     Testing    gt  Sys setlocale  LC MESSAGES    en US utf8    1   en US utf8   gt  x 3  Error  object  x  not found   Also working to get english messages   Sys setlocale  LC MESSAGES    C     To reset to german messages I used  Sys setlocale  LC MESSAGES    de DE utf8     Here is the start of my sessionInfo    gt  sessionInfo   R version 3 4 1  2017-06-30  Platform  x86 64-pc-linux-gnu  64-bit  Running under  Ubuntu 16 04 2 LTS

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Change your current regional format to a different regional format in region settings on time amp language settings in Windows by clicking on your time date in lower right corner  gt  adjust time date  gt  Region  gt  change regional format to UK or US

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