locale {minty} | R Documentation |
Create locales
Description
A locale object tries to capture all the defaults that can vary between countries. You set the locale in once, and the details are automatically passed on down to the columns parsers. The defaults have been chosen to match R (i.e. US English) as closely as possible.
Usage
locale(
date_names = "en",
date_format = "%AD",
time_format = "%AT",
decimal_mark = ".",
grouping_mark = ",",
tz = "UTC",
encoding = "UTF-8",
asciify = FALSE
)
default_locale()
Arguments
date_names |
Character representations of day and month names. Either
the language code as string (passed on to |
date_format , time_format |
Default date and time formats. |
decimal_mark , grouping_mark |
Symbols used to indicate the decimal
place, and to chunk larger numbers. Decimal mark can only be |
tz |
Default tz. This is used both for input (if the time zone isn't present in individual strings), and for output (to control the default display). The default is to use "UTC", a time zone that does not use daylight savings time (DST) and hence is typically most useful for data. The absence of time zones makes it approximately 50x faster to generate UTC times than any other time zone. Use For a complete list of possible time zones, see |
encoding |
Default encoding (not used in |
asciify |
Should diacritics be stripped from date names and converted to ASCII? This is useful if you're dealing with ASCII data where the correct spellings have been lost. Requires the stringi package. |
Value
a list / S3 object representing the locale information
Examples
locale()
locale("fr")
# South American locale
locale("es", decimal_mark = ",")