[R-SIG-Mac] Bug related to locale changes.

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 08/06/2015 8:55 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> Interesting - it seems to fail only the first time after the locale is set:
> 
>> Sys.setlocale(locale="en_CA")
> [1] "en_CA/en_CA/en_CA/C/en_CA/en_US.UTF-8"
>> "320" > "300"
> [1] NA
>> "320" > "300"
> [1] TRUE
>> "320" > "300"
> [1] TRUE
> 
> There is probably an associated error. I'll have a look later today unless someone beats me to it.

I think I've got it, and should be able to commit a patch soon.

Duncan

> 
> Thanks,
> Simon
> 
> 
> On Jun 8, 2015, at 7:40 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I posted this to R-devel yesterday; from responses received, it appears
>> to be OSX-specific (maybe Mavericks-specific).
>>
>> In an R session started from the terminal with R --vanilla, I see this:
>>
>>> Sys.setlocale(locale="en_CA")
>> [1] "en_CA/en_CA/en_CA/C/en_CA/en_CA.UTF-8"
>>> "320" > "300"
>> [1] NA
>>> "320" > "300"
>> [1] TRUE
>>
>> The first string comparison after the locale change produces NA, while
>> later ones are fine.
>>
>> The locale string "en_CA" doesn't appear to matter, as long as it is
>> different from my previous locale.
>>
>> Do others see this?  Can we fix it before the 3.2.1 release?
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
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