On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, ronggui wrote:
Prof Brian Ripley, I found the error by chance. the error is found in R2.1.0 too.
As far as I can see, if anyone had run any example() in R on a Windows machine in your locale it would have failed. But no one reported a problem. I don't even have that locale on my Windows machine, and it is in a format I have never seen before.
Yes. Please do beta-test *before* release: R 2.1.0 is released. If no one actually tests R in your language, we will not discover that there are problems in that language. Over to the users to beta-test when asked to.
My point is that we rely on users to test things we cannot test. Unless a user participated in the beta testing (s)he should regard his/her locale as unsupported. I have attempted to fix this in R-patched, so please try a build of that in a day or so (I am not sure automated builds for Windows are running yet).
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595