R version 2.1.0 and later support translations of program messages into different languages. A number of translation projects are already underway or completed. To offer your help with one of these, contact a team on the list below. The following pages include the information about internationalization of R:
R supports the translation of its messages, including error and warning messages and menu labels. Instructions for translating R messages are noted here. Translation teams for R message translation (in alpahbetic order) are listed as below:
| Language | Contact |
|---|---|
| Chinese (Simplified) | Fei Chen <FChen6@its.jnj.com> |
| Chinese (Traditional) | Wei-Lun Chao <chaoweilun@gmail.com> |
| Danish | Joe Dalton <joedalton2@yahoo.dk> |
| Dutch | Tobias Verbeke <tobias.verbeke@telenet.be> |
| French | Philippe Grosjean <phgrosjean@sciviews.org> |
| German | Detlef Steuer <steuer@hsu-hh.de> |
| Greek (modern) | Angelos I. Markos <angelos@pobox.com> (which was returned as invalid in Mar 2011) |
| Hungarian | Daniel Kehl |
| Italian | Stefano Iacus |
| Japanese | Masafumi Okada |
| Korean | Chel Hee Lee <chelhee.lee@ucalgary.ca> |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl@huftis.org> |
| Persian | Mahmood Taghavi <taghavi_m@razi.tums.ac.ir>, web page |
| Polish | Lukasz Daniel <lukasz.daniel@gmail.com> |
| Portuguese-BR | Fernando Henrique Ferraz P. da Rosa |
| Portuguese-PT | Nigel Randsley <nigel.randsley@gmail.com> |
| Russian | Alexey Shipunov <dactylorhiza@gmail.com> |
| Spanish | Pablo E. Verde <pabloemilio.verde@uni-duesseldorf.de> |
| Turkish | Murat Alkan <muratalk@gmail.com> |
| Ukrainian | Ivanka Skakun <ivanka.skakun@gmail.com> |
The R Documentation files are licensed under the General Public License, version 2 or 3. This means that the pilot project to translate them into other languages has permission to reproduce them and translate them. It would be another aspect of the internationalization of R. Some results have been worked out can be check at [here]. This project attempts to keep translation up-to-dated along with the development of R documentation. Please contact Chel Hee Lee<chelhee.lee@ucalgary.ca> for questions, comments, and/or voluntary participation.
Corrections to and comments on message translations should be sent to the maintainer of your language team as listed at http://translation.r-project.org. If you would like to use the R bug tracking system, please choose the translation item on the component field.
This page is edited by Chel Hee Lee on 2020-JAN-16.