>From my reading of http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/internal-string-comparison-Scollate-td4687584.html they have good arguments to ask for Scollate whatever it is in the R public API.
And from my point of view R would benefit from a tight integration of data.table. Without data.table R is very impractical to use, with data which is avaiable today. On 6 July 2014 14:15, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/07/2014, 7:56 AM, Witold E Wolski wrote: >> This is the info I got from the data.table developers... Seems that >> they did have tried to find a more elegant solution solution.: > > From my reading of the response below, data.table doesn't use R's sort() > function to do their sorting. You should use whatever sort function > they use if you want to match their sort order. > > Duncan Murdoch > >> >> >> 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.
