R devel - Oct 2007 - R CMD build and et_EE.UTF-8 locale -> invalid files (PR#10351)

Full_Name: Ott Toomet
Version: 2.6.0, 2.5.x
OS: debian etch, lenny
Submission from: (NULL) (80.235.63.243)


When building a package with 'R CMD build name_of_directory" using
"et_EE.UTF-8"
locale, I get the following:

siim at tancredi:~/tyyq/econ/micEcon$ R CMD build trunk 
* checking for file 'trunk/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'trunk':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* checking whether 'INDEX' is up-to-date ... NO
* use '--force' to overwrite the existing 'INDEX'
* removing junk files
* excluding invalid files from 'micEcon'
Subdirectory 'R' contains invalid file names:
  testConsist.R tobit2fit.R tobit2.R tobit5fit.R translogCalc.R
  translogDeriv.R translogEst.R translogHessian.R translogMonoRestr.R
  utils.R vcov-methods.R vcov.selection.R writeFront41in.R
Subdirectory 'man' contains invalid file names:
  testConsist.Rd tobit2fit.Rd translogCalc.Rd translogDeriv.Rd
  translogEst.Rd translogHessian.Rd triang.Rd vcov-methods.Rd
  vcov.selection.Rd vecli2m.Rd veclipos.Rd vecli.Rd writeFront41in.Rd
* checking for LF line-endings in source and make files
* checking for empty or unneeded directories
* building 'micEcon_0.3-8.tar.gz'

Of course, the package does not work because of removal of these files.  It is
hard for me to see anything illegal in the listed file names.  Even more,
everything works perfectly, if I run the command from "C" locale:

siim at tancredi:~/tyyq/econ/micEcon$ LC_ALL="C" R CMD build trunk 
* checking for file 'trunk/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'trunk':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* checking whether 'INDEX' is up-to-date ... NO
* use '--force' to overwrite the existing 'INDEX'
* removing junk files
* checking for LF line-endings in source and make files
* checking for empty or unneeded directories
* building 'micEcon_0.3-8.tar.gz'

I can still can directly install from the subdirectory: 'R CMD INSTALL
trunk'
works well regardless of locale.

The micEcon package is available at CRAN.

Best,
Ott

otoomet at ut.ee wrote:
> Full_Name: Ott Toomet
> Version: 2.6.0, 2.5.x
> OS: debian etch, lenny
> Submission from: (NULL) (80.235.63.243)
>
>
> When building a package with 'R CMD build name_of_directory" using
"et_EE.UTF-8"
> locale, I get the following:
>
> siim at tancredi:~/tyyq/econ/micEcon$ R CMD build trunk 
> * checking for file 'trunk/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * preparing 'trunk':
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> * checking whether 'INDEX' is up-to-date ... NO
> * use '--force' to overwrite the existing 'INDEX'
> * removing junk files
> * excluding invalid files from 'micEcon'
> Subdirectory 'R' contains invalid file names:
>   testConsist.R tobit2fit.R tobit2.R tobit5fit.R translogCalc.R
>   translogDeriv.R translogEst.R translogHessian.R translogMonoRestr.R
>   utils.R vcov-methods.R vcov.selection.R writeFront41in.R
> Subdirectory 'man' contains invalid file names:
>   testConsist.Rd tobit2fit.Rd translogCalc.Rd translogDeriv.Rd
>   translogEst.Rd translogHessian.Rd triang.Rd vcov-methods.Rd
>   vcov.selection.Rd vecli2m.Rd veclipos.Rd vecli.Rd writeFront41in.Rd
> * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files
> * checking for empty or unneeded directories
> * building 'micEcon_0.3-8.tar.gz'
>
> Of course, the package does not work because of removal of these files.  It
is
> hard for me to see anything illegal in the listed file names.  Even more,
> everything works perfectly, if I run the command from "C" locale:
>
> siim at tancredi:~/tyyq/econ/micEcon$ LC_ALL="C" R CMD build
trunk
> * checking for file 'trunk/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * preparing 'trunk':
> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
> * checking whether 'INDEX' is up-to-date ... NO
> * use '--force' to overwrite the existing 'INDEX'
> * removing junk files
> * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files
> * checking for empty or unneeded directories
> * building 'micEcon_0.3-8.tar.gz'
>
> I can still can directly install from the subdirectory: 'R CMD INSTALL
trunk'
> works well regardless of locale.
>
> The micEcon package is available at CRAN.
>
>   
I'm not sure what to do about it, but I'm 99% sure that what is biting
you is that Estonian sorts z before t, and something somewhere is using
a regexp containing a-zA-Z.

Presumably, R CMD build should just standardize the locale to "C"
internally (it is a right pain to change all instances of a-zA-Z to
[[:alpha:]],  most likely not even possible to do it portably, and at
any rate, packages should not come out different depending on the locale
in which it was built.)


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