From spencer.graves at prodsyse.com  Sun Jul 10 05:44:21 2011
From: spencer.graves at prodsyse.com (Spencer Graves)
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 20:44:21 -0700
Subject: [Rd] sort infelicity
Message-ID: <4E192015.5030305@prodsyse.com>

Hello:


       sort(c('A', 'b', 'C')) seems to produce different answers in R 
interactive than in "R CMD check", at least under both Fedora 13 and 
Windows 7 with Windows 7 sessionInfo() copied below:


       In interactive, the result is c('A', 'b', 'C');  with R CMD 
check, it is c('A', 'C', 'b').  This produced the infelicity of a bug in 
"R CMD check" that I could not replicate with interactive R because a 
*.Rd file contained the equivalent example of 
stopifnot(all.equal(sort(c('A', 'b', 'C')), c('A', 'b', 'C'))):  It 
worked just fine interactively but failed R CMD check.


       Once I understood this problem, it was easy to fix.  However, it 
was not easy to find, especially since I got the same problem under 
Fedora 13 Linux and Windows 7.


       This seems to be a sufficiently obscure anomaly that I thought 
someone might like to see it reported here.


       Best Wishes,
       Spencer Graves


 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.12.2 (2011-02-25)
Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] splines   stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
[8] base

other attached packages:
[1] SIM_1.4-6      fda_2.2.6      zoo_1.6-5      RCurl_1.5-0.1  
bitops_1.0-4.1
[6] R2HTML_2.2     oce_0.3-1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_2.12.2     lattice_0.19-30 tools_2.12.2



[Rd] sort infelicity
Spencer Graves