Thanks for the quick answer. The documentation for Sys.setlocale mentions the possibility of warning when LC_NUMERIC is set.
After checking it is looking like setting LC_NUMERIC from Sys.setlocale does issue a warning, but there is does not seem to be a warning when LC_NUMERIC is set in the parent shell. In the case the later is likely to cause trouble, would it be appropriate to issue a warning when R is initialized ? Laurent On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 19:37 +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, laurent wrote: > > > Dear list, > > > > A problem with creating pdf or postscript plots from an embedded R, and > > in an environment where a locale is defined, was recently reported on > > the rpy (Python->R interface) mailing list. > > > > The problem appears to be that whenever the locale defines ',' as a > > separator for the decimal part of a numerical value, the pdf/ps file > > generated still has the ',' instead of a '.' causing problem when open > > the resulting file with a postscript/pdf viewer. > > > > Of course, an obvious workaround would be to force the locale for > > numbers to C ( LC_NUMERIC = "C" ), but that could be overriding > > internationalization features otherwise in R. > > > > Any advice ? > > Don't set LC_NUMERIC with R: ?Sys.setlocale did warn you about that. > It used to cause far more problems than this. > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
