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I extract date using this piece of code : all_trips$day_of_week <- format(as.Date(all_trips$date), "%A")

I get days of the week in Russian language (I'm using Windows 10 and it's also in Russian),but I'd like to get them in English since everything else in my R environment is set to English.

I tried this : Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", "English") it didn't help

Session info: R version 4.1.2 (2021-11-01) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 22518) Matrix products: default locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=Russian_Russia.1251 LC_CTYPE=Russian_Russia.1251 [3] LC_MONETARY=Russian_Russia.1251 LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=Russian_Russia.1251 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] compiler_4.1.2 tools_4.1.2
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Reset to default
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I found one solution

 Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_ALL", locale = "English")

it does the trick,but it resets back to my system language once I restart R session.

Now I'm wondering how to stop my locale settings from resetting everytime I restart the session.

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I found the solution here
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I couldn't use Sys.setlocale on windows, too.

Found an alternative that works quite good (just replace Sys.time() with your date column):

c("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday")[as.POSIXlt(Sys.time())$wday + 1]

Output:

[1] "Monday"
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