Set a specific language for dates permanently in R

Asked Jul 28 '19 at 22:44

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I want to permanently set the default language of date in R to english. Now every time I start a new R session I have greek as default language even though I use:

Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", "English")

format(Sys.Date(), format = "%Y-%b-%d")
[1] "2019-Ιουλ-29"

I found that I have to use something like:

.First <- function() {
   Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", "English")
   }

but I cannot understand where to put this. Anybody knows the steps?

edited Jul 29 '19 at 07:02

asked Jul 28 '19 at 22:44

firmo23

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Have a look here - https://www.statmethods.net/interface/customizing.html – thelatemail Jul 28 '19 at 22:50
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Another ref: https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/Startup.html – r2evans Jul 28 '19 at 22:53
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Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46819684/how-to-access-and-edit-rprofile – Pablo Rod Jul 28 '19 at 22:59
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I made this work by modifying this file but when I deploy my shiny app in shinyapps.io its greek again. Strange! – firmo23 Jul 28 '19 at 23:23

Set a specific language for dates permanently in R

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