>>>>> Mikko Korpela <mikko.korp...@helsinki.fi>
>>>>> on Wed, 18 May 2016 14:18:20 +0300 writes:
> On 18/05/16 13:50, Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>>> Mikko Korpela <mikko.korp...@helsinki.fi> on Wed, 18
>>>>>>> May 2016 13:05:24 +0300 writes:
>>
>> > I get an error when running "make check" after building
>> > R-devel r70629 on Ubuntu 14.04. > Here are the
>> relevant > lines in the file "reg-tests-1c.Rout.fail":
>>
>> > > ## m1z uses match(x, *) with length(x) == 1 and
>> failed in R 3.3.0 > > ## PR#16909 - a consequence of the
>> match() bug; check here too: > > dv <- data.frame(varé1 =
>> 1:3, varé2 = 3); dv[,"varé2"] <- 2 > Error: unexpected
>> input in "dv <- data.frame(var<C3>" > Execution halted
>>
>> > The attached patch uses escape sequences for all
>> non-ASCII characters in > this test and performs pretty
>> much the same check as the original > version, as far as
>> I know. This fixes "make check" for me. The patched >
>> check fails on R 3.3.0 as it should.
>>
>> Thank you, Mikko!
>>
>> This is ..hmm.. "interesting". We have a few other
>> non-ASCII characters in a few of the tests/*.R files and
>> they don't seem to harm your checks; even reg-tests-1c.R
>> contains some.
>>
>> Also, the "Installation and Administration" R Manual
>> mentions that some of the tests only run flawlessly if
>> you are not using "unusual" locales. So I am a bit
>> puzzled that exactly this (new) test fails in your
>> locale, but the others did not.
> My quick check indicates that this was the only test with
> non-ASCII characters in argument names. That might be the
> crucial difference.
very good point, Mikko, thank you!
Indeed that error happens at *parse* time ... whereas using such
character in strings is considerably less problematic.
What are the results of my fix (R-devel svn rev >= 70631) ?
Martin
>>
>> However, as I said, thank you indeed for diagnosing the
>> problem and providing a patch working around it (and
>> still checking the intended problem !!). I'm applying
>> the patch now ... so you'd continue to be one of our
>> valuable pre-alpha/beta testers.
>>
>> With best regards, Martin
>>
>>
>> > Here is the output of "locale":
>>
>> > LANG=en_GB > LANGUAGE=en_GB: > LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 >
>> LC_NUMERIC="en_GB" > LC_TIME="en_GB" > LC_COLLATE="en_GB"
>> > LC_MONETARY=fi_FI.UTF-8 > LC_MESSAGES="en_GB" >
>> LC_PAPER="en_GB" > LC_NAME="en_GB" > LC_ADDRESS="en_GB" >
>> LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB" > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB" >
>> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB" > LC_ALL=
>>
>> > --
>> > Mikko Korpela > Department of Geosciences and Geography
>> > University of Helsinki
>>
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