How to change the language of R menu items

The example is changing from Tranditional Chinese to English

 

Although you can find the GUI setting from menu, but it will show you an error message after you save the change.

 

The right approach to change the language is below:

Step1: Locate to “etc” folder whthin R installation directory, in my example, C:\Program Files\R\R-3.1.1\etc

Step 2: Open file, Rconsole

 

Step 3: Find “language = “, add “en” as language code

 

Step 4: When you save the file, system will show no permission error. Click “No” not to save the file.

 

Step 5: Right click the Rconsole file –> click “Properties” to pop up property window

 

Step 6: Switch to “Security” tab –> click “Edit” button –> choose “Users” –> tick “Allow” on “Full control” –> OK

 

Step 7: Repeat step 2 to 4 again to add “en” in the end of “language = ” line

 

Step 8: Open R console to see the meun in English