[Rd] Bug in loadNamespace?

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Mon Jun 8 17:17:42 CEST 2015 

I believe this is now fixed in R-devel and R-3.2.1-beta as of revision
68489.

Duncan Murdoch

On 08/06/2015 7:20 AM, peter dalgaard wrote:
> Looks like this could be locale related. Both of you are using non-US locales, and Sys.setlocale is not changing the last entry (LC_MESSAGES), which is as documented, but maybe somehow related. 
> 
> I can reproduce with
> 
> Peters-iMac:r-release-branch pd$ LC_ALL=da_DK.UTF-8 BUILD-dist/bin/R --vanilla
> 
> R version 3.2.1 beta (2015-06-07 r68485) -- "World-Famous Astronaut"
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>> Sys.setlocale(locale='en_US.UTF-8')
> [1] "en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/da_DK.UTF-8"
>> "320" > "300"
> [1] NA
> 
> 
> On 08 Jun 2015, at 11:10 , Reijo Sund <reijo.sund at helsinki.fi> wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>> Yes, I can repeat the problem. Happens at least with Mavericks build of R 3.1.3 (2015-03-09) as well as with Mavericks as well as Snowleopard builds of R 3.2.1 beta (2015-06-07 r68485).
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Reijo
>>
>> - - -
>>
>> R version 3.1.3 (2015-03-09) -- "Smooth Sidewalk"
>> Copyright (C) 2015 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
>>
>>> Sys.setlocale(locale='en_US.UTF-8')
>> [1] "en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/fi_FI.UTF-8"
>>> "320" > "300"
>> [1] NA
>>> "320" > "300"
>> [1] TRUE
>>
>> - - -
>>
>> R version 3.2.1 beta (2015-06-07 r68485) -- "World-Famous Astronaut"
>> Copyright (C) 2015 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
>>
>>> Sys.setlocale(locale='en_US.UTF-8')
>> [1] "en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/fi_FI.UTF-8"
>>> "320" > "300"
>> [1] NA
>>> "320" > "300"
>> [1] TRUE
>>
>> - - -
>>
>> R version 3.2.1 beta (2015-06-07 r68485) -- "World-Famous Astronaut"
>> Copyright (C) 2015 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)
>>
>>> Sys.setlocale(locale='en_US.UTF-8')
>> [1] "en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/fi_FI.UTF-8"
>>> "320" > "300"
>> [1] NA
>>> "320" > "300"
>> [1] TRUE
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> kirjoitti 8.6.2015 kello 11.14:
>>>
>>> Not happening for me with
>>>
>>> R version 3.2.0 Patched (2015-06-05 r68479) -- "Full of Ingredients"
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> Sys.setlocale(locale='en_US.UTF-8')
>>> [1] "en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8"
>>>> "320"> "300"
>>> [1] TRUE
>>>> "320"> "300"
>>> [1] TRUE
>>>>
>>>
>>> -pd
>>>
>>>> On 08 Jun 2015, at 03:42 , Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 07/06/2015 9:14 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7 June 2015 at 20:46, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>>>> | I am seeing very strange behaviour in R 3.2.0 patched (r68272) and a new
>>>>> | build of R-devel.  The sessioninfo() from the former is below.
>>>>> | 
>>>>> | Here's what I see:  If I set the locale, and trigger a namespace load, a
>>>>> | version comparison gives NA, and I get an error.  For example, in a new
>>>>> | session started with R --vanilla from the terminal:
>>>>> | 
>>>>> | > Sys.setlocale(locale='en_US.UTF-8');grid::gpar()
>>>>> | [1] "en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8"
>>>>> | Error in if (R_version_built_under < "3.0.0") stop(gettextf("package %s
>>>>> | was built before R 3.0.0: please re-install it",  :
>>>>> |   missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
>>>>> | 
>>>>> | I've tried debugging this, and the bad lines are these, in loadNamespace:
>>>>> | 
>>>>> | R_version_built_under <- as.numeric_version(built$R)
>>>>> | if (R_version_built_under < "3.0.0") stop(gettextf("package %s was built
>>>>> | before R 3.0.0: please re-install it",
>>>>> |     sQuote(basename(pkgpath))), call. = FALSE, domain = NA)
>>>>> | 
>>>>> | These are in the src/library/base/R/namespace.R file, around line 379.
>>>>> | 
>>>>> | If I stop it before the if and evaluate R_version_built_under, it looks
>>>>> | fine.  If I stop it there and evaluate
>>>>> | 
>>>>> | R_version_built_under < "3.0.0"
>>>>> | 
>>>>> | I get NA.  If I evaluate it again without changing anything, I get FALSE.
>>>>> | 
>>>>> | Does anyone else see this?  Any ideas on what might be the cause?
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't see it on Ubuntu with a fresh R-devel:
>>>>>
>>>>> edd at max:~/svn/r-devel$ RD
>>>>>
>>>>> R Under development (unstable) (2015-06-06 r68485) -- "Unsuffered Consequences"
>>>>> Copyright (C) 2015 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>>>>> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>>>>>
>>>>> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>>>>> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
>>>>> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>>>>>
>>>>> Natural language support but running in an English locale
>>>>>
>>>>> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
>>>>> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
>>>>> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>>>>>
>>>>> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
>>>>> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
>>>>> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>>>>>
>>>>> R> Sys.setlocale(locale='en_US.UTF-8');grid::gpar()
>>>>> [1] "LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C"
>>>>> list()
>>>>> R> 
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't have r-patched handy or I'd try that too.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.  It doesn't actually need loadNamespace, it's string comparisons
>>>> that fail.  For example,
>>>>
>>>> $ R --vanilla
>>>>
>>>> R version 3.2.0 Patched (2015-04-28 r68272) -- "Full of Ingredients"
>>>> Copyright (C) 2015 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>>>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
>>>>
>>>> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>>>> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
>>>> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
>>>>
>>>> Natural language support but running in an English locale
>>>>
>>>> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
>>>> Type 'contributors()' for more information and
>>>> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
>>>>
>>>> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
>>>> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
>>>> Type 'q()' to quit R.
>>>>
>>>>> Sys.setlocale(locale='en_US.UTF-8')
>>>> [1] "en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8"
>>>>> "320" > "300"
>>>> [1] NA
>>>>> "320" > "300"
>>>> [1] TRUE
>>>>
>>>> I don't see it in R-devel on Windows.
>>>>
>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>>
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