In the NA cases, storage.mode(..) - and also typeof(..) and class(..) - returns "logical", whereas in the other cases I get "integer" (and class "factor").
charToRaw(..) returns a7, as you suspected. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Peter Dalgaard [mailto:p.dalga...@biostat.ku.dk] Gesendet: Freitag, 10. April 2009 11:03 An: Raberger, Stefan Cc: r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch; r-b...@r-project.org Betreff: Re: AW: [Rd] type.convert (PR#13646) Raberger, Stefan wrote: > Hi Peter, > > each of the four PCs actually has the same locale setting: > >> Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE") > [1] "German_Austria.1252" > > (all the other settings returned by invoking Sys.getlocale() are identical as > well). > > Just to be sure (because it's displayed incorrectly in my browser on the > bugtracking page): the character inside the type.convert function ought to be > a "section"-sign (HTML Code § or § , in R "\247", and not a dot > "."). I saw it correctly. It's "\302\247" in UTF8 locales, which is of course the reason I suspected locale settings, but I can't seem to trigger the NA behaviour. I'm at a loss here, but some ideas: In the cases where it returns NA, what type is it? (I.e. storage.mode(type.convert(....))) What do you get from > charToRaw("§") [1] c2 a7 (a7, presumably, but better check). -p > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Peter Dalgaard [mailto:p.dalga...@biostat.ku.dk] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 09. April 2009 19:26 > An: Raberger, Stefan > Cc: r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch; r-b...@r-project.org > Betreff: Re: [Rd] type.convert (PR#13646) > > s.raber...@innovest.at wrote: >> Full_Name: Stefan Raberger >> Version: 2.8.1 >> OS: Windows XP >> Submission from: (NULL) (213.185.163.242) >> >> >> Hi there, >> >> I recently noticed some strange behaviour of the command "type.convert", >> depending on the startup mode used. But there also seems to be different >> behaviour on different PCs (all running the same OS and the same version of >> R). >> >> On PC1: >> When I start R in SDI mode (RGui --no-save --no-restore --no-site-file >> --no-init-file --no-environ) and try to convert, the result is >> >>> type.convert("§") >> [1] NA >> >> If I use MDI mode (RGui --no-save --no-restore --no-site-file --no-init-file >> --no-environ --no-Rconsole) instead, the result is >> >>> type.convert("§") >> [1] § >> Levels: § >> >> On PC2 it's exactly the other way round (SDI: §, MDI: NA), on PC2 the result >> is >> always NA, independent of the startup mode used, and on PC4 it's always §. >> >> What's the result I should expect R to return, and why is it different in so >> many cases? > > Which locale does R think it is in in the four cases? > (Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE"), I think). > > Might well not be a bug (so please don't file it as one). > >> Any help is much appreciated! >> Regards, Stefan >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalga...@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
