[datatable-help] data.table 1.8.2 now on CRAN

[Matthew Dowle]

> Matthew Dowle wrote:
>
>> To test your installation :
>>
>> require(data.table)
>> test.data.table()
>> ... snip ...
>> All 717 tests in test.data.table() completed ok in 54.099sec
>>
>> If it says 717, then you're 100% good.
>
> Note that test.data.table() won’t necessarily work properly under a
> non-English locale, as some of the warnings or error messages may
> come out translated. On my (Norwegian Nynorsk) Windows system, 31 tests
> failed. But if I start R from the command line by typing
>
>   SET LC_ALL=C
>   c:\Path-To-R...\Rgui.exe
>
> everything worked fine.

Never knew that before. Thanks for letting us know.

Maybe test.data.table() can Sys.setlocale() to an English one for the
duration of the tests, then, and then set it back to what it was. Now
raised as FR#2156 :

https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2156&group_id=240&atid=978

I raised something similar on r-devel about the new non ascii bug fix
tests (thanks to your bug report) not working on CRAN's Mac due to its C
locale, but didn't here back yet :

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2012-July/064419.html

Those tests of non ascii characters (708-712) had to be removed (fully
removed from the test file so it can be read and parsed, not just
commented out) until I'm advised how that should be done.  CRAN's Mac is
the only problem there. Those non-ascii tests work on all other CRAN
machines and even on R-Forge's Mac.

Matthew

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