Dear all,
One of the unit tests for my package breaks only on r-devel under Windows (
https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_git2rdata.html).
The unit test sorts a set of UTF-8 characters and writes them to disk. I've
noticed that the Euro symbol (?) gets a different place in r-devel under
Windows 10 compared to over combinations of R version and OS.
I know that sorting depends on the locale. Therefore I set the locale to
"C" prior to sorting. See the function below. After sorting, I reset
the
locale to the existing one.
Is there something that I'm missing?
Best regards,
Thierry
set_c_locale <- function() {
old_ctype <- Sys.getlocale(category = "LC_CTYPE")
old_collate <- Sys.getlocale(category = "LC_COLLATE")
old_time <- Sys.getlocale(category = "LC_TIME")
old_monetary <- Sys.getlocale(category = "LC_MONETARY")
Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_CTYPE", locale = "C")
Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_COLLATE", locale = "C")
Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_TIME", locale = "C")
Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_MONETARY", locale = "C")
return(
c(
ctype = old_ctype, collate = old_collate, time = old_time,
monetary = old_monetary
)
)
}
ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Statisticus / Statistician
Vlaamse Overheid / Government of Flanders
INSTITUUT VOOR NATUUR- EN BOSONDERZOEK / RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND
FOREST
Team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / Team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
thierry.onkelinx at inbo.be
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