Locale Configuration

The configured locale is en_US.UTF-8. Additionally, the following locales are installed in our images by default:

• de_CH.UTF-8
• de_FR.UTF-8
• fr_CH.UTF-8

To use these one of these locale, users need to change the default during R session startup by adding an entry into their user-level or project-level .Renviron file. For example:

LC_ALL="de_CH.UTF-8"

Afterwards, the locale can be queried via

Sys.getlocale()

[1] "LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=de_CH.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=de_CH.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=de_CH.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C"