[Rd] [patch] Error in reg-tests-1c.R (R-devel)

[Mikko Korpela]

On 18/05/16 13:50, Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> Mikko Korpela <mikko.korpela at helsinki.fi>
>>>>>>      on Wed, 18 May 2016 13:05:24 +0300 writes:
>
>      > I get an error when running "make check" after building
>      > R-devel r70629 on Ubuntu 14.04.
>      > Here are the relevant
>      > lines in the file "reg-tests-1c.Rout.fail":
>
>      >    > ## m1z uses match(x, *) with length(x) == 1 and failed in R 3.3.0
>      >    > ## PR#16909 - a consequence of the match() bug; check here too:
>      >    > dv <- data.frame(varé1 = 1:3, varé2 = 3); dv[,"varé2"] <- 2
>      >    Error: unexpected input in "dv <- data.frame(var<C3>"
>      >    Execution halted
>
>      > The attached patch uses escape sequences for all non-ASCII characters in
>      > this test and performs pretty much the same check as the original
>      > version, as far as I know. This fixes "make check" for me. The patched
>      > check fails on R 3.3.0 as it should.
>
> Thank you, Mikko!
>
> This is ..hmm.. "interesting".  We have a few other non-ASCII characters
> in a few of the tests/*.R  files  and they don't seem to harm
> your checks; even  reg-tests-1c.R  contains some.
>
> Also, the "Installation and Administration" R Manual mentions
> that some of the tests only run flawlessly if you are not using
> "unusual" locales.  So I am a bit puzzled that exactly this
> (new) test fails in your locale, but the others did not.

My quick check indicates that this was the only test with non-ASCII 
characters in argument names. That might be the crucial difference.

- Mikko

>
> However, as I said, thank you indeed for diagnosing the problem and
> providing a patch working around it (and still checking the
> intended problem !!).
> I'm applying the patch now ... so you'd continue to be one of
> our valuable pre-alpha/beta testers.
>
> With best regards,
> Martin
>
>
>      > Here is the output of "locale":
>
>      >    LANG=en_GB
>      >    LANGUAGE=en_GB:
>      >    LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8
>      >    LC_NUMERIC="en_GB"
>      >    LC_TIME="en_GB"
>      >    LC_COLLATE="en_GB"
>      >    LC_MONETARY=fi_FI.UTF-8
>      >    LC_MESSAGES="en_GB"
>      >    LC_PAPER="en_GB"
>      >    LC_NAME="en_GB"
>      >    LC_ADDRESS="en_GB"
>      >    LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB"
>      >    LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB"
>      >    LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB"
>      >    LC_ALL=
>
>      > --
>      > Mikko Korpela
>      > Department of Geosciences and Geography
>      > University of Helsinki
>