R devel - Mar 2014 - internal string comparison (Scollate)

Hello, 

I?d like to compare two strings internally the way R would, so I need Scollate
which is not part of the authorized R api.

So: 
 - Can Scollate (and perhaps Seql) be promoted to api ?
 - If not what are the alternatives ? Using strcmp or stroll does not seem as
general as Scollate.

Romain

PS: Here is some context: https://github.com/hadley/dplyr/issues/325

On 26 March 2014 at 17:22, Romain Fran?ois wrote:
| I?d like to compare two strings internally the way R would, so I need Scollate
which is not part of the authorized R api.
| 
| So: 
|  - Can Scollate (and perhaps Seql) be promoted to api ?
|  - If not what are the alternatives ? Using strcmp or stroll does not seem as
general as Scollate.

I'd add a third option:

   - Put this in a new package and register the functions you want.

as I don't see a R Core change on the public vs non-public APIs anytime
soon.

But we have CRAN, and we can cheaply and reliably import functions from other
packages.  Yes, it is code duplication, but it offers a layer of indirection
that permits possibles changes to such an API.

I have been meaning to put such a package up for serialization code. It will
contain a few lines of C code from base R. Junji and Ei-ji have already
placed this in their Rhpc package. I am using them (in yet another copy) in
my unfinished Redis package in order to get to serialization from C++.

Dirk

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