[R] using data() in an example

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

I agree, and BTW the sort order is the same in locale en_GB on Linux and
Solaris, so this is a common trap.  I could understand CcRr as a sort 
order (it's dictionary order), but cCrR is hard to accept.

I think that RedHat 7.x/8.0 sets up locale en_GB as the default in the
UK: I keep on having to remember to change it on our boxes.

I had made a note to look into data().

Meanwhile the best fix is to save the object and use bailey.rda (and 
nothing else).

On 3 Mar 2003, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk writes:
> 
> > ?data says
> > 
> >         4.  files ending `.csv' are read using `read.table(..., header
> >            = TRUE, sep = ";")', and also result in a data frame.
> > 
> > That may well be found first, so you need to rename bailey.csv.
> > 
> > You don't tell us your OS, but it looks like Windows where sorts often 
> > have c before R in the default locale:
> 
> Yikes! Thanks for pointing this out, Brian. 
> 
> I think we should consider it a bug(-let) and change data() to ensure
> that .R files are found before any other extensions, exactly because
> of this sort of application.
> 
> 

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