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<h2>Find Details of the Numerical and Monetary Representations
in the Current Locale</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>

<p>Get details of the numerical and monetary representations in the
current locale.
</p>

<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>
Sys.localeconv()
</pre>

<h3>Details</h3>

<p>Normally <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier; color: #666666;"><b>R</b></span> is run without looking at the value of <span class="env">LC_NUMERIC</span>,
so the decimal point remains '<code>.</code>'.  So the first three of these
components will only be useful if you have set the locale category
<code>LC_NUMERIC</code> using <code>Sys.setlocale</code> in the current <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier; color: #666666;"><b>R</b></span> session
(when <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier; color: #666666;"><b>R</b></span> may not work correctly).
</p>
<p>The monetary components will only be set to non-default values (see
the &lsquo;Examples&rsquo; section) if the <code>LC_MONETARY</code> category is
set.  It often is not set: set the examples for how to trigger setting it.
</p>

<h3>Value</h3>

<p>A character vector with 18 named components.  See your ISO C
documentation for details of the meaning.
</p>
<p>It is possible to compile <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier; color: #666666;"><b>R</b></span> without support for locales, in which
case the value will be <code>NULL</code>.
</p>

<p><code><a href="locales.html">Sys.setlocale</a></code> for ways to set locales.
</p>

<h3>Examples</h3>

<pre>
Sys.localeconv()
## The results in the C locale are
##    decimal_point     thousands_sep          grouping   int_curr_symbol
##              "."                ""                ""                ""
##  currency_symbol mon_decimal_point mon_thousands_sep      mon_grouping
##               ""                ""                ""                ""
##    positive_sign     negative_sign   int_frac_digits       frac_digits
##               ""                ""             "127"             "127"
##    p_cs_precedes    p_sep_by_space     n_cs_precedes    n_sep_by_space
##            "127"             "127"             "127"             "127"
##      p_sign_posn       n_sign_posn
##            "127"             "127"

## Now try your default locale (which might be "C").
old &lt;- Sys.getlocale()
## The category may not be set:
## the following may do so, but it might not be supported.
Sys.setlocale("LC_MONETARY", locale = "")
Sys.localeconv()
## or set an appropriate value yourself, e.g.
Sys.setlocale("LC_MONETARY", "de_AT")
Sys.localeconv()
Sys.setlocale(locale = old)

## Not run: read.table("foo", dec=Sys.localeconv()["decimal_point"])
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