With the i18n package it’s possible to get CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) data to support your own localization efforts. This package provides up-to-date datasets from the Unicode's CLDR repositories, and, as an added bonus, functions to extract elements and sub-elements in a locale-specific way.

The included datasets are:

• all_locales
• all_currency_codes
• default_locales
• locale_names
• dates
• dates_generic
• numbers
• currencies
• characters
• character_labels
• delimiters
• layout
• script_metadata
• units
• num_system_digits
• day_periods
• start_of_week
• tz_exemplar
• tz_metazone_names
• tz_metazone_users
• tz_map
• tz_formats
• tz_bcp_id

And the nice-to-have functions are:

• cldr_locale_names()
• cldr_numbers()
• cldr_dates()
• cldr_currencies()
• cldr_characters()
• cldr_character_labels()

EXAMPLES

If you need to get the decimal mark and grouping separators for the base German locale "de", then the cldr_numbers() function could be used:

cldr_numbers(
  locale = "de",
  element = numbers_elements$decimal
)

#> [1] ","

cldr_numbers(
  locale = "de",
  element = numbers_elements$group
)

#> [1] "."

Need to know the "LU" territory name from the "es" locale?

cldr_locale_names(locale = "es", element = locale_names_elements$territory_names)$LU

#> [1] "Luxemburgo"

Want a list of days-of-the-week names in the "ko" locale?

cldr_dates(
  locale = "ko",
  element = dates_elements$days_standalone_wide
)

#> $sun
#> [1] "일요일"
#> 
#> $mon
#> [1] "월요일"
#> 
#> $tue
#> [1] "화요일"
#> 
#> $wed
#> [1] "수요일"
#> 
#> $thu
#> [1] "목요일"
#> 
#> $fri
#> [1] "금요일"
#> 
#> $sat
#> [1] "토요일"

Need to get the appropriate display name for the Japanese Yen ("JPY") currency while in the "zh" locale?

cldr_currencies(
  locale = "zh",
  currency = currency_code_list$JPY,
  element = currencies_elements$currency_display_name
)

#> [1] "日元"

Would you like the complete set of exemplar characters for the "fi" locale?

cldr_characters(
  locale = "fi",
  element = characters_elements$exemplar_characters
)

#> [1] "[a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s š t u v w x y z ž å ä ö]"

This is just a small sampling of ways you can easily get at all the data within the CLDR while using R!

INSTALLATION

Want to try this out? The i18n package is available on CRAN:

install.packages("i18n")

You can also install the development version of i18n from GitHub:

devtools::install_github("rich-iannone/i18n")

If you encounter a bug, have usage questions, or want to share ideas to make this package better, feel free to file an issue.

Code of Conduct

Please note that the i18n project is released with a contributor code of conduct.
By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

📄 License

i18n is licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE.md file for more details.

🏛️ Governance

This project is primarily maintained by Rich Iannone.