This is the info I got from the data.table developers... Seems that they did have tried to find a more elegant solution solution.:
data.table used to support this until 1.8.6. But since Scollate became not a part of authorised R-API (IIUC) anymore at some point, data.table only supports sort/order under the C-locale. data.table's ordering/sorting is over 10-20x faster than base's and the only way right now (IIUC) to sort by locale is to use base's sort/order. This post may give some more insight. http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/internal-string-comparison-Scollate-td4687584.html In summary, we support only C-locale. On 6 July 2014 13:33, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/07/2014, 7:19 AM, Witold E Wolski wrote: >> It seems that the package I am developing depends on the locale "C" >> because of interactions with other packages (data.table). >> >> So I would like to set the locale to "C" as soon as the package is loaded. >> Where can I do it .. I could of course set it in every function in my >> package but... >> > > As the help page says, you can't do it reliably on all platforms, and > you really shouldn't even try: that will affect other things that the > user does. > > You will need to find another solution to your problem. > > Duncan Murdoch -- Witold Eryk Wolski ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
