I extract date using this piece of code :
all_trips$day_of_week <- format(as.Date(all_trips$date), "%A")
I get days of the week in Russian language (I'm using Windows 10 and it's also in Russian),but I'd like to get them in English since everything else in my R environment is set to English.
I tried this : Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", "English")
it didn't help
Session info:
R version 4.1.2 (2021-11-01)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 22518)
Matrix products: default
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Russian_Russia.1251 LC_CTYPE=Russian_Russia.1251
[3] LC_MONETARY=Russian_Russia.1251 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=Russian_Russia.1251
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.1.2 tools_4.1.2
CodePudding user response:
I couldn't use Sys.setlocale
on windows, too.
Found an alternative that works quite good (just replace Sys.time() with your date column):
c("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday",
"Friday", "Saturday")[as.POSIXlt(Sys.time())$wday 1]
Output:
[1] "Monday"
CodePudding user response:
I found one solution
Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_ALL", locale = "English")
it does the trick,but it resets back to my system language once I restart R session.
Now I'm wondering how to stop my locale settings from resetting everytime I restart the session.