withr (version 2.4.3)

with_locale: Locale settings

Description

Temporarily change locale settings.

Usage

with_locale(new, code)
local_locale(.new = list(), ..., .local_envir = parent.frame())

Arguments

new, .new

[named character] New locale settings

code

[any] Code to execute in the temporary environment

...

Additional arguments with locale settings.

.local_envir

[environment] The environment to use for scoping.

Value

[any] The results of the evaluation of the code argument.

Details

Setting the LC_ALL category is currently not implemented.

See Also

withr for examples

Sys.setlocale()

Examples

# NOT RUN {
## Change locale for time:
df <- data.frame(
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE,
  date = as.Date(c("2019-01-01", "2019-02-01")),
  value = c(1, 2)
)
with_locale(new = c("LC_TIME" = "es_ES"), code = plot(df$date, df$value))
## Compare with:
#  plot(df$date, df$value)

## Month names:
with_locale(new = c("LC_TIME" = "en_GB"), format(ISOdate(2000, 1:12, 1), "%B"))
with_locale(new = c("LC_TIME" = "es_ES"), format(ISOdate(2000, 1:12, 1), "%B"))

## Change locale for currencies:
with_locale(new = c("LC_MONETARY" = "it_IT"), Sys.localeconv())
with_locale(new = c("LC_MONETARY" = "en_US"), Sys.localeconv())

## Ordering:
x <- c("bernard", "b<U+00E9>r<U+00E9>nice", "b<U+00E9>atrice", "boris")
with_locale(c(LC_COLLATE = "fr_FR"), sort(x))
with_locale(c(LC_COLLATE = "C"), sort(x))

# }