Set locale on shinyapps.io via GHActions

Question

I have this dashboard and it's locale is currently set to english (see months names). I've tried, as you can see here, to set mac-os and R locale to pt_BR via:

      - name: change macos locale
        run: |
          export LC_ALL=pt_BR.UTF-8  
          export LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8

      - name: change R locale
        run: Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", "pt_BR.UTF-8")
        shell: Rscript {0}

But still can't change it.

There's this line in ShinyApps.io log: `2021-03-31T23:06:14.112722+00:00 shinyapps[3094159]: LANG: en_US.UTF-8` — Alberson Miranda, Mar 31 '21 at 23:28
Have you tried changing directly from the R code like this? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16347731/how-to-change-the-locale-of-r — Tomas Capretto, Apr 01 '21 at 02:01
@TomasCapretto yeah, that's what second command does. Still doesn't works. (Added LANGUAGE variable, no good either). — Alberson Miranda, Apr 01 '21 at 03:42

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 03 '21 at 04:42

I've had success changing the locale in a shinyapps.io dashboard as follows:

Before you call rsconnect::deployApp, include in your R script

options(rsconnect.locale.cache = FALSE, rsconnect.locale = "pt_BR.UTF-8")
In your app.R file (or whatever file will actually be running on shinyapps.io), include the line

Sys.setlocale(locale = "pt_BR.UTF-8")

As best I understand it, the first line tells shinyapps that it needs to have that language available, and the second tells R running on shinyapps to use that language.

Set locale on shinyapps.io via GHActions

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