Dear All The "R CMD check" on the "zoo" (1.7-11) package results in an error on my environment. It can be reduced to the following example:
---------------------------------------------------- > require(zoo) > read.zoo(system.file("doc", "demo1.txt", package = "zoo"), sep = "|", format="%d %b %Y") Error in read.zoo(system.file("doc", "demo1.txt", package = "zoo"), sep = "|", : index has bad entries at data rows: 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ---------------------------------------------------- I am using the following environment (on Windows 7): ---------------------------------------------------- > sessionInfo() R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=German_Switzerland.1252 LC_CTYPE=German_Switzerland.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=German_Switzerland.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=German_Switzerland.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base ---------------------------------------------------- The problem are the locale settings. In the "demo1.txt" the months are abbreviated in English; while my environment would only accept German abbreviations. The problem can be solved by setting the time locale: > Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", "English") or > Sys.setlocale("LC_TIME", "C") Now; for "R CMD check", the manual (http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html) states the following: - "R CMD check and R CMD build run R processes with --vanilla..." So no possibility to set the locales (in contrary to the environment variables) through an "Rprofile" file... - "All these tests are run with collation set to the C locale..." If I set "LC_ALL" or only "LC_TIME" to "C" the example shown at the top actually works if I run it manually. However; if I run "R CMD check" I get the ERROR. Therefore; are the locales really set to "C" for "R CMD check"? If yes; why would the example above not work? If no; how could I achieve custom locale settings? Thanks! Tobias ------------------------------------------ Tobias Setz Rmetrics Association tobias.s...@rmetrics.org www.rmetrics.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel