Bug related to locale changes.

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.

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