From murdoch.duncan at gmail.com  Fri Sep  1 00:13:42 2017
From: murdoch.duncan at gmail.com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 18:13:42 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Natural vs National in R signon banner?
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On 31/08/2017 5:38 PM, Paul McQuesten wrote:
> The R signon banner includes this statement:
>       Natural language support but running in an English locale
> 
> Should that not say 'National' instead of 'Natural'?
> Meaning that LOCALE support is enabled, not that the interface understands
> human language?
> 

No, "natural language" refers to human languages, but it doesn't imply 
that R understands them.  NLS just means that messages may be presented 
in (or translated to) other human languages in an appropriate context.

For example, you can start R on most platforms from the console using

LANGUAGE=de R

and instead of the start message you saw, you'll see

R ist freie Software und kommt OHNE JEGLICHE GARANTIE.
Sie sind eingeladen, es unter bestimmten Bedingungen weiter zu verbreiten.
Tippen Sie 'license()' or 'licence()' f?r Details dazu.

and so on.

> Please ignore this and forgive me if this is an inappropriate post. I am a
> N00B in R.

I don't think it is inappropriate.

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] Natural vs National in R signon banner?
Duncan Murdoch