R help - Apr 2005 - error due to locales again

>example(lm)
Error in switch(x[2], "1250" = return("ISO 8859-2"),
"1251" = return("KOI8-U"),  :
        argument is missing, with no default
>  Sys.getlocale(category = "LC_ALL")
[1] "LC_COLLATE=Chinese_People's Republic of
China.936;LC_CTYPE=Chinese_People's Republic of
China.936;LC_MONETARY=Chinese_People's Republic of
China.936;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Chinese_People's Republic of China.936"
> version
         _              
platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     i386           
os       mingw32        
system   i386, mingw32  
status   beta           
major    2              
minor    1.0            
year     2005           
month    04             
day      16             
language R

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 the the users to beta-test when 
asked to.

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, ronggui wrote:
>> example(lm)
> Error in switch(x[2], "1250" = return("ISO 8859-2"),
"1251" = return("KOI8-U"),  :
>        argument is missing, with no default
>
>>  Sys.getlocale(category = "LC_ALL")
> [1] "LC_COLLATE=Chinese_People's Republic of
China.936;LC_CTYPE=Chinese_People's Republic of
China.936;LC_MONETARY=Chinese_People's Republic of
China.936;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Chinese_People's Republic of China.936"
>
>> version
>         _
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386
> os       mingw32
> system   i386, mingw32
> status   beta
> major    2
> minor    1.0
> year     2005
> month    04
> day      16
> language R

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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).

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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

> >> example(lm)
> > Error in switch(x[2], "1250" = return("ISO
8859-2"), "1251" = return("KOI8-U"),  :
> >        argument is missing, with no default
--- src/library/utils/R/iconv.R.orig    2005-04-18 19:18:58.000000000
+0900
+++ src/library/utils/R/iconv.R 2005-04-19 17:37:32.000000000 +0900
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
                "1254" = return("ISO 8859-9"),
                "1255" = return("ISO 8859-8"),
                "1256" = return("ISO 8859-6"),
-               "1257" = return("ISO 8859-13"),
+               "1257" = return("ISO 8859-13")
                )
         return(paste("CP", x[2], sep=""))
     } else {

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