R-beta: R and LANG

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Goran Brostrom <gb at stat.umu.se> writes:

> I am running R 0.61.0 on a Sparc 5, Solaris 2.4, in tcsh. Today I
> couldn't, to my big surprise, scan a data file in R. As I finally
> understood it, R wanted a decimal comma instead of a decimal point,
> because LANG was set to 'sv'. See my runs below. I wonder why this 

Apparently, the strtod() C library function accepts different formats
depending on locale settings, so probably the setlocale(LC_ALL,""); in
src/main/main.c is doing you in. 

This is the same thing that allows you to have a variable called
"föräldre" and see come out right on plots, etc., so you don't want to
remove that line. 

I think that either you should setenv LC_NUMERIC to C or POSIX or R
should only set LC_CTYPE (and maybe some of the others?).

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