R devel - Feb 2018 - readLines interaction with gsub different in R-dev

| Confirmed for R-devel (current) on Ubuntu 17.10.  But ... isn't the regexp
| you use wrong, ie isn't R-devel giving the correct answer?

No, I don't think R-devel is correct (or at least consistent with the
documentation). My interpretation of gsub("(\\w)", "\\U\\1",
entry,
perl = TRUE) is "Take every word character and replace it with itself,
converted to uppercase."

Perhaps my example was too minimal. Consider the following:

R> gsub("(\\w)", "\\U\\1", entry, perl = TRUE)
[1] "A"

R> gsub("(\\w)", "\\1", entry, perl = TRUE)
[1] "author: Am?lie"   # OK, but very different to 'A',
despite only
not specifying uppercase

R> gsub("(\\w)", "\\U\\1", "author: Amelie",
perl = TRUE)
[1] "AUTHOR: AMELIE"  # OK, but very different to 'A',

R> gsub("^(\\w+?): (\\w)", "\\U\\1\\E: \\2", entry, perl
= TRUE)
 "AUTHOR"  # Where did everything after the first group go?

I should note the following example too:
R> gsub("(\\w)", "\\U\\1", entry, perl = TRUE, useBytes =
TRUE)
[1] "AUTHOR: AM??LIE"  # latin1 encoding


A call to `readLines` (possibly `scan()` and `read.table` and friends)
is essential.




On 18 February 2018 at 02:15, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
wrote:
>
> On 17 February 2018 at 21:10, Hugh Parsonage wrote:
> | I was told to re-raise this issue with R-dev:
> |
> | In the documentation of R-dev and R-3.4.3, under ?gsub
> |
> | > replacement
> | >    ... For perl = TRUE only, it can also contain "\U" or
"\L" to convert the rest of the replacement to upper or lower case and
"\E" to end case conversion.
> |
> | However, the following code runs differently:
> |
> | tempf <- tempfile()
> | writeLines(enc2utf8("author: Am?lie"), con = tempf, useBytes =
TRUE)
> | entry <- readLines(tempf, encoding = "UTF-8")
> | gsub("(\\w)", "\\U\\1", entry, perl = TRUE)
> |
> |
> | "AUTHOR: AM?LIE"  # R-3.4.3
> |
> | "A"                              # R-dev
>
> Confirmed for R-devel (current) on Ubuntu 17.10.  But ... isn't the
regexp
> you use wrong, ie isn't R-devel giving the correct answer?
>
> R> tempf <- tempfile()
> R> writeLines(enc2utf8("author: Am?lie"), con = tempf,
useBytes = TRUE)
> R> entry <- readLines(tempf, encoding = "UTF-8")
> R> gsub("(\\w)", "\\U\\1", entry, perl = TRUE)
> [1] "A"
> R> gsub("(\\w+)", "\\U\\1", entry, perl = TRUE)
> [1] "AUTHOR"
> R> gsub("(.*)", "\\U\\1", entry, perl = TRUE)
> [1] "AUTHOR: AM?LIE"
> R>
>
> Dirk
>
> --
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org

I think the problem in R-devel happens when there are non-ASCII characters
in any
of the strings passed to gsub.

txt <- vapply(list(as.raw(c(0x41, 0x6d, 0xc3, 0xa9, 0x6c, 0x69, 0x65)),
as.raw(c(0x41, 0x6d, 0x65, 0x6c, 0x69, 0x61))), rawToChar, "")
txt
#[1] "Am?lie" "Amelia"
Encoding(txt)
#[1] "unknown" "unknown"
gsub(perl=TRUE, "(\\w)(\\w)", "<\\L\\1\\U\\2>", txt)
#[1] "<a" "<a"
gsub(perl=TRUE, "(\\w)(\\w)", "<\\L\\1\\U\\2>",
txt[1])
#[1] "<a"
gsub(perl=TRUE, "(\\w)(\\w)", "<\\L\\1\\U\\2>",
txt[2])
#[1] "<aM><eL><iA>"

I can change the Encoding to "latin1" or "UTF-8" and get
similar results
from gsub.


Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 7:35 AM, Hugh Parsonage <hugh.parsonage at
gmail.com>
wrote:
> | Confirmed for R-devel (current) on Ubuntu 17.10.  But ... isn't the
> regexp
> | you use wrong, ie isn't R-devel giving the correct answer?
>
> No, I don't think R-devel is correct (or at least consistent with the
> documentation). My interpretation of gsub("(\\w)",
"\\U\\1", entry,
> perl = TRUE) is "Take every word character and replace it with itself,
> converted to uppercase."
>
> Perhaps my example was too minimal. Consider the following:
>
> R> gsub("(\\w)", "\\U\\1", entry, perl = TRUE)
> [1] "A"
>
> R> gsub("(\\w)", "\\1", entry, perl = TRUE)
> [1] "author: Am?lie"   # OK, but very different to 'A',
despite only
> not specifying uppercase
>
> R> gsub("(\\w)", "\\U\\1", "author:
Amelie", perl = TRUE)
> [1] "AUTHOR: AMELIE"  # OK, but very different to 'A',
>
> R> gsub("^(\\w+?): (\\w)", "\\U\\1\\E: \\2", entry,
perl = TRUE)
>  "AUTHOR"  # Where did everything after the first group go?
>
> I should note the following example too:
> R> gsub("(\\w)", "\\U\\1", entry, perl = TRUE,
useBytes = TRUE)
> [1] "AUTHOR: AM??LIE"  # latin1 encoding
>
>
> A call to `readLines` (possibly `scan()` and `read.table` and friends)
> is essential.
>
>
>
>
> On 18 February 2018 at 02:15, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
wrote:
> >
> > On 17 February 2018 at 21:10, Hugh Parsonage wrote:
> > | I was told to re-raise this issue with R-dev:
> > |
> > | In the documentation of R-dev and R-3.4.3, under ?gsub
> > |
> > | > replacement
> > | >    ... For perl = TRUE only, it can also contain "\U"
or "\L" to
> convert the rest of the replacement to upper or lower case and
"\E" to end
> case conversion.
> > |
> > | However, the following code runs differently:
> > |
> > | tempf <- tempfile()
> > | writeLines(enc2utf8("author: Am?lie"), con = tempf,
useBytes = TRUE)
> > | entry <- readLines(tempf, encoding = "UTF-8")
> > | gsub("(\\w)", "\\U\\1", entry, perl = TRUE)
> > |
> > |
> > | "AUTHOR: AM?LIE"  # R-3.4.3
> > |
> > | "A"                              # R-dev
> >
> > Confirmed for R-devel (current) on Ubuntu 17.10.  But ... isn't
the
> regexp
> > you use wrong, ie isn't R-devel giving the correct answer?
> >
> > R> tempf <- tempfile()
> > R> writeLines(enc2utf8("author: Am?lie"), con = tempf,
useBytes = TRUE)
> > R> entry <- readLines(tempf, encoding = "UTF-8")
> > R> gsub("(\\w)", "\\U\\1", entry, perl = TRUE)
> > [1] "A"
> > R> gsub("(\\w+)", "\\U\\1", entry, perl = TRUE)
> > [1] "AUTHOR"
> > R> gsub("(.*)", "\\U\\1", entry, perl = TRUE)
> > [1] "AUTHOR: AM?LIE"
> > R>
> >
> > Dirk
> >
> > --
> > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
>
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Thank you for the report and analysis. Now fixed in R-devel.
Tomas

On 02/17/2018 08:24 PM, William Dunlap via R-devel
wrote:
> I think the problem in R-devel happens when there are non-ASCII characters
> in any
> of the strings passed to gsub.
>
> txt <- vapply(list(as.raw(c(0x41, 0x6d, 0xc3, 0xa9, 0x6c, 0x69, 0x65)),
> as.raw(c(0x41, 0x6d, 0x65, 0x6c, 0x69, 0x61))), rawToChar, "")
> txt
> #[1] "Am?lie" "Amelia"
> Encoding(txt)
> #[1] "unknown" "unknown"
> gsub(perl=TRUE, "(\\w)(\\w)", "<\\L\\1\\U\\2>",
txt)
> #[1] "<a" "<a"
> gsub(perl=TRUE, "(\\w)(\\w)", "<\\L\\1\\U\\2>",
txt[1])
> #[1] "<a"
> gsub(perl=TRUE, "(\\w)(\\w)", "<\\L\\1\\U\\2>",
txt[2])
> #[1] "<aM><eL><iA>"
>
> I can change the Encoding to "latin1" or "UTF-8" and
get similar results
> from gsub.
>
>
> Bill Dunlap
> TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
>
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 7:35 AM, Hugh Parsonage <hugh.parsonage at
gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> | Confirmed for R-devel (current) on Ubuntu 17.10.  But ... isn't
the
>> regexp
>> | you use wrong, ie isn't R-devel giving the correct answer?
>>
>> No, I don't think R-devel is correct (or at least consistent with
the
>> documentation). My interpretation of gsub("(\\w)",
"\\U\\1", entry,
>> perl = TRUE) is "Take every word character and replace it with
itself,
>> converted to uppercase."
>>
>> Perhaps my example was too minimal. Consider the following:
>>
>> R> gsub("(\\w)", "\\U\\1", entry, perl = TRUE)
>> [1] "A"
>>
>> R> gsub("(\\w)", "\\1", entry, perl = TRUE)
>> [1] "author: Am?lie"   # OK, but very different to
'A', despite only
>> not specifying uppercase
>>
>> R> gsub("(\\w)", "\\U\\1", "author:
Amelie", perl = TRUE)
>> [1] "AUTHOR: AMELIE"  # OK, but very different to
'A',
>>
>> R> gsub("^(\\w+?): (\\w)", "\\U\\1\\E: \\2",
entry, perl = TRUE)
>>   "AUTHOR"  # Where did everything after the first group go?
>>
>> I should note the following example too:
>> R> gsub("(\\w)", "\\U\\1", entry, perl = TRUE,
useBytes = TRUE)
>> [1] "AUTHOR: AM??LIE"  # latin1 encoding
>>
>>
>> A call to `readLines` (possibly `scan()` and `read.table` and friends)
>> is essential.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 18 February 2018 at 02:15, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at
debian.org> wrote:
>>> On 17 February 2018 at 21:10, Hugh Parsonage wrote:
>>> | I was told to re-raise this issue with R-dev:
>>> |
>>> | In the documentation of R-dev and R-3.4.3, under ?gsub
>>> |
>>> | > replacement
>>> | >    ... For perl = TRUE only, it can also contain
"\U" or "\L" to
>> convert the rest of the replacement to upper or lower case and
"\E" to end
>> case conversion.
>>> |
>>> | However, the following code runs differently:
>>> |
>>> | tempf <- tempfile()
>>> | writeLines(enc2utf8("author: Am?lie"), con = tempf,
useBytes = TRUE)
>>> | entry <- readLines(tempf, encoding = "UTF-8")
>>> | gsub("(\\w)", "\\U\\1", entry, perl = TRUE)
>>> |
>>> |
>>> | "AUTHOR: AM?LIE"  # R-3.4.3
>>> |
>>> | "A"                              # R-dev
>>>
>>> Confirmed for R-devel (current) on Ubuntu 17.10.  But ... isn't
the
>> regexp
>>> you use wrong, ie isn't R-devel giving the correct answer?
>>>
>>> R> tempf <- tempfile()
>>> R> writeLines(enc2utf8("author: Am?lie"), con = tempf,
useBytes = TRUE)
>>> R> entry <- readLines(tempf, encoding = "UTF-8")
>>> R> gsub("(\\w)", "\\U\\1", entry, perl =
TRUE)
>>> [1] "A"
>>> R> gsub("(\\w+)", "\\U\\1", entry, perl =
TRUE)
>>> [1] "AUTHOR"
>>> R> gsub("(.*)", "\\U\\1", entry, perl =
TRUE)
>>> [1] "AUTHOR: AM?LIE"
>>> R>
>>>
>>> Dirk
>>>
>>> --
>>> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
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