Question

I am trying some tutorials on bioconductor; but I get error messages, that I would like to search/submit; unfortunately, since R is installed on a system configured in french, R returns me messages in french; how could I have these messages in english.

My system:
Ubuntu 10.04 runing gnome 3;
R version is the last (2.15.1)
Bioconductor have been updated to 2.10,

and I try to download/use datasets GSE20986 (but I have had a similar error with another dataset GSE2034, while following the procedure given in “R in a nutshell”); to those of you speaking french the error message that I get is:

> getGEOSuppFiles("GSE20986")
[1] "ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/geo/DATA/supplementary/series/GSE20986/"
Erreur dans scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings,  : 
  la ligne 1 n'avait pas 6 éléments

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

I think you need to set the LANGUAGE environment variable when you start R. try starting R like this:

$ LANGUAGE=en R