[R] Windows / Accented characters / pb with makename

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "BDR" == Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

    BDR> On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Charles RAUX wrote:
    >> Thank you for the hint (I didn't know makename). In fact contrary to 
    >> what is indicated in help makename doesn't give legal R names 
    >> (at least under Windows).
    >> See below:
    >> 
    >> > make.names("aéaéaéaùàééé")
    >> [1] "aéaéaéaùàééé"
    >> 
    >> 2) What is a "legal R name"? (found nowhere in FAQ, help...)

    BDR> That's the problem. In S it is a-zA-Z0-9 plus `.'.  In R it would
    BDR> appear to be those characters which are regarded as alphanumeric
    BDR> in the locale in use plus `.' (Via a call to isalnum in both
    BDR> make.names and the parser.) Now it's hard for me to test this, but
    BDR> I think in a French locale those chars should be legal in names.
    BDR> They are not in the C or en_UK locales, and make.names on Windows
    BDR> does work in those locales.

Yes, the locale should determine legal names in R.
Here, I use  de_CH :

> Sys.getenv("LC_ALL")
 LC_ALL 
"de_CH" 

and have

> make.names("Zürich")
[1] "Zürich"
> make.names("René")
[1] "René"


    BDR> There is something rather peculiar about locale support on Windows,
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