Re: [Rd] Windows iconv() "failure" in certain locales

2017-06-28 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 27/06/2017 11:36 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: This is a continuation of the R-devel thread with subject "suggestion to fix packageDescription() for Windows users" : As I said there, a patch should rather address the underlying problem in packageDescription rather than a kludgy workaround patch

Re: [Rd] Windows iconv() "failure" in certain locales

2017-06-28 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 27.06.2017 17:36, Martin Maechler wrote: This is a continuation of the R-devel thread with subject "suggestion to fix packageDescription() for Windows users" : As I said there, a patch should rather address the underlying problem in packageDescription rather than a kludgy workaround patch

[Rd] regexec() bug in R 3.4.0

2017-06-28 Thread Weeks, Nathan
Hi, In R 3.4.0, the "Pattern Matching and Replacement" documentation that describes regexec(), gregexpr(), etc. states that the "text" argument to regexec is a character vector, "or an object which can be coerced by as.character to a character vector": regexec(pattern, text, ignore.case =