[R] Locale problems with strptime to convert dates

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Luis Torgo wrote:

> Hi. I've already posted this question 2 months ago but as I've got no
> answer I've decided to try again :-)

That's because we have no answer: we can't reproduce it (nor something
similar involving a Finnish locale).  But on many other machines
locale-switching does work correctly: the likely problem is in
language-specific Microsoft DLLs.

`R is a collaborative project with many contributors.' and patches
are likely to be accepted.

Remember that R has no staff to offer free advice: it does not even have
an active Windows maintainer.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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