[Rd] Bug in rank with utf8?

[John McKown]

Once again again, I did not read the Subject correctly. I switched away
from UTF8 in my second test.

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 9:01 AM, John McKown <john.archie.mckown at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2015-08-13 8:39 GMT-05:00 Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com>:
>
>> x <- "\u0663"
>> y <- 3
>>
>> x == y
>> # FALSE
>> rank(c(x, y))
>> # c(1.5, 1.5)
>>
>
> ​also interesting, and confusing to me:
>
> > x == y
> [1] FALSE
> > x > y
> [1] FALSE
> > x < y
> [1] FALSE
> >
>
> With some slight changes:
>
> > x <- "\u0663"
> > y <- "3"
> > xy <- c(x,y)
> > rank(xy);
> [1] 1.5 1.5
> > Sys.getlocale();
> [1]
> "LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF8;LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF8;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C"
> > Sys.setlocale(category="LC_COLLATE", locale="C");
> [1] "C"
> > rank(xy);
> [1] 2 1
> >
>
>
>
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>>
>>
> --
>
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> restore is attempted.
>
> Yoda of Borg, we are. Futile, resistance is, yes. Assimilated, you will be.
>
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>
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>
> Maranatha! <><
> John McKown
>



-- 

Schrodinger's backup: The condition of any backup is unknown until a
restore is attempted.

Yoda of Borg, we are. Futile, resistance is, yes. Assimilated, you will be.

He's about as useful as a wax frying pan.

10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone

Maranatha! <><
John McKown

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