R-beta: base not loading

NOTE: Looking at  RHOME/library/base/R/base (which is the R file that is
      NOT correctly loaded by the internal C code),
      I now bet, that it is  .Alias(.)  which is failing;  more exactly,
      line 64
      colours <- .Alias(colors)

In my RHOME/library/base/R/base this is line 7105. Based on hints from Peter
Dalgaard and Brian Ripley I discovered that the setting of LC_COLLATE affects
the result of ls, but does not seem to be responsible for the very different
order in which things are arranged in RHOME/library/base/R/base. (Apparently the
setting of LC_COLLATE is part of a choice about locale made during the
installation of Solaris 2.6, so not everyone will have it set.)

One can
    unsetenv LC_COLLATE
which changes the result of ls, but on re-installing R this does not seem to
affect the order of things in RHOME/library/base/R/base (and I have still not
figured out why it is different between 2.5 and 2.6).

On the other hand, removing
    ## nice to the English
    colours <- colors
from RHOME/library/base/R/base seems to fix everything. This assignment seems
to be replicated by
   colours <- .Alias(colors)
and so I guess Peter's fix is the right one.

Paul Gilbert



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