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## Find Details of the Numerical and Monetary Representations in the Current Locale

### Description

Get details of the numerical and monetary representations in the current locale.

### Usage

    Sys.localeconv()

### Details

Normally R is run without looking at the value of LC_NUMERIC, so the decimal point remains '`.`'. So the first three of these components will only be useful if you have set the locale category `LC_NUMERIC` using `Sys.setlocale` in the current R session (when R may not work correctly).

The monetary components will only be set to non-default values (see the ‘Examples’ section if the `LC_MONETARY` category is set. It often is not set: set the examples for how to trigger setting it.

### Value

A character vector with 18 named components. See your ISO C documentation for details of the meaning.

It is possible to compile R without support for locales, in which case the value will be `NULL`.

### See Also

`Sys.setlocale` for ways to set locales.

### Examples

    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").
    ## Not run: old <- 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)
    ## End(Not run)

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

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