r - axis labels are not plotted in English

Question

R doesn't plot automatically the axis labels in English (for example Months are in French). I use (if the information is useful...):

• windows (and I have already changed "language = en" in .../Programs/R/etc/Rconsole to make R speaking English)
• RStudio
• ggplot2

I know that I am not the only one with this issue but I never found a solution.

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252  LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252 LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=French_France.1252

Answer 1

To change language of the environment use the following command:

Sys.setenv("LANGUAGE"="En")

To change locale to English:

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

The name of the locale depends on what is installed on your system (for example, you might use "en_GB.UTF-8" instead of "English").