Delocalizing R

[schnee]

If you, like me, are sometimes using R in the salt mines, and if you're stuck with a work computer that's got a localized copy of Windows installed where changing the system language is no an option, and if you're annoyed that R then translates every fucking thing including error messages …

… then set an environment variable called LANGUAGE to

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[thewayne]

[insert Picard face-palm jpeg]

What utter nonsense.

[schnee]

You mean R localizing warnings, error messages and the like? Yeah - that's really braindead, on about the same level as Microsoft Excel translating the names of functions in localized versions (and then not even accepting the English ones if you use those).