Locale setting in R/RStudio

If you have different locale from English (usually living outside US or UK), then pretty common problem can be simple task - get weekdays in English from dates.

Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", "C")

do the trick and bypass

OS reports request to set locale to "EN" cannot be honored

error which is pretty common if you use command

Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", "English")
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