On Thu, 17 May 2007, Petr Savicky wrote:
>> strncasecmp is not standard C (not even C99), but R does have a substitute
>> for it. Unfortunately strncasecmp is not usable with multibyte charsets:
>> Linux systems have wcsncasecmp but that is not portable. In these days of
>> widespread use of UTF
> strncasecmp is not standard C (not even C99), but R does have a substitute
> for it. Unfortunately strncasecmp is not usable with multibyte charsets:
> Linux systems have wcsncasecmp but that is not portable. In these days of
> widespread use of UTF-8 that is a blocking issue, I am afraid.
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Petr Savicky wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 06:41:23AM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> I suggest you collaborate with the person who replied that he thought this
>> was a good idea to supply patches against the R-devel sources for
>> scrutiny.
>
> A possible solution is t
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 06:41:23AM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> I suggest you collaborate with the person who replied that he thought this
> was a good idea to supply patches against the R-devel sources for
> scrutiny.
A possible solution is to use strncasecmp instead of strncmp
in function
On Mon, 7 May 2007, Petr Savicky wrote:
> Dear R developers,
>
> I suggest to modify the behaviour of "grep" function with fixed=TRUE option.
>
> Currently, fixed=TRUE implies ignore.case=FALSE (overrides ignore.case=TRUE,
> if set by the user).
As it clearly says it does.
> I suggest to keep ig
Seems like a good idea to me.
Here is a workaround that works in any event which combines (?i), \Q and \E .
to get the same effect. (?i) gives case insensitive matches and \Q and \E
quote and endquote the intervening text disabling special characters:
x <- c("D.G cat", "d.g cat", "dog cat")
z <-
Dear R developers,
I suggest to modify the behaviour of "grep" function with fixed=TRUE option.
Currently, fixed=TRUE implies ignore.case=FALSE (overrides ignore.case=TRUE,
if set by the user).
I suggest to keep ignore.case as set by the user even if fixed=TRUE. Since
the default of ignore.case
