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

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Mikko Korpela <mikko.korpela at helsinki.fi>
>>>>>     on Wed, 18 May 2016 14:18:20 +0300 writes:

    > 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.

very good point, Mikko, thank you!
Indeed that error happens at *parse* time ... whereas using such
character in strings is considerably less problematic.

What are the results of my fix  (R-devel svn rev >= 70631)  ?

Martin


    >> 
    >> 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
    >>