Spanish specific translations
This repository is a hub for all people who want to help translate R into Spanish. This README is in English, but you can reach out to other translators on the R Contributors Slack if you need any additional information about the project.
The goal of the es project is to bring together all people interested in helping translate the R language into Spanish. If you use R a lot, we need your help!
Unlike other languages, R tries to display every message in the same language as the computer it's running on. In principle, this reduces R's barrier to entry; warnings and errors are very common in code written by beginners, so it's essential that these messages are as clear as possible.
Unlike Spanish, English does not specify grammatical gender. We will try to follow the Manual for Non Sexist Use of Language (in Spanish) in translations as much as we can, but unfortunately that is not always possible.
You can check other useful links to use grammatical gender:
Grammatical gender of arguments, acronyms and other nouns can usually be inferred by context. In the example below, we translate "DLL" as "a biblioteca de vínculo dinámico" (dynamic-link library).
DLL %s was not loaded
DLL %s no fue cargada
In the following example, although "scale" is a feminine noun in Spanish, the masculine is used because it is replacing "argument", "o argumento", which is a masculine noun.
'scale' should be numeric or NULL
'scale' debe ser numérico o NULL
In certain situations, we can simply ignore genders. In the following expression, we could translate "author" to "autor(a)", but there are alternatives that allow us to completely omit it.
Authors@R field gives no person with name and author role
El campo Authors@R no proporciona ninguna persona con nombre ni función de 'author'
In rare cases, the messeges references who doing the programming. In these cases, the best we can do without jeopardising comprehension or overly increasing the length of the sentence is to use "o(a)".
Not enough arguments passed to user macro '%s'
No se han pasado suficientes argumentos para la macro %s' de usuario(a)
It's important to note that this strategy is not adopted by the French and Italian teams, who prefer to simply use the masculine term "usuario". Unless there is some guideline discouraging resources such as "o(a)", we believe that our standard is preferable.
Weblate has a built-in glossary that you can consult when doing a translation. To add new terms is better to discuss it with the community first and reach a consensus. You can also refer to glossaries created by different projects: