[Rd] Basic Question on error(_(...
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Thu Jun 21 22:56:16 CEST 2007
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> statmobile at gmail.com wrote:
>> I'm sorry to bother this list with such trivial questions, but I'm
>> trying to take Prof. Ripley's advice in porting some Lapack wrappers
>> into my own code, because they are not public. I'm specifically
>> choosing programs from R-2.5.0/src/modules/lapack/Lapack.c.
>>
>> I can't seem to understand the context in functions such as:
>>
>> <snip>
>> error(_("the leading minor of order %d is not positive
>> definite"),
>> i);
>> </snip>
>>
>> in functions such as modLa_chol. Is there some place I can look to
>> understand the usage of the underscore '_', or could someone explain
>> this to me?
>>
> This has to do with internationalization. It signifies that translations
> are available for the error message, e.g. the file "de.po" in the R
> sources has
>
> #: src/modules/lapack/Lapack.c:629
> #, c-format
> msgid "the leading minor of order %d is not positive definite"
> msgstr "der führende Minor der Ordnung %d ist nicht positiv definit"
The answer to 'where' is section 1.9 Localization in 'Writing R
Extensions' or section 3.1 of 'R Internals'.
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