withLocale

From R.utils v2.7.0 by Henrik Bengtsson

Evaluate an R expression with locale set temporarily

Evaluate an R expression with locale set temporarily.

Keywords: programming, IO

Usage

withLocale(expr, category, locale, ..., substitute=TRUE, envir=parent.frame())

Arguments

expr: The R expression to be evaluated.
category: A character string specifying the category to use.
locale: character vector specifying the locale to used. The first successfully set one will be used.
...: Not used.
substitute: If TRUE, argument expr is substitute():ed, otherwise not.
envir: The environment in which the expression should be evaluated.

Value

Returns the results of the expression evaluated.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# Vector
cat("Original vector:\n")
x <- c(letters[1:8], LETTERS[1:8])
print(x)

cat("Sorting with 'C' locale:\n")
y1 <- withLocale(sort(x), "LC_COLLATE", "C")
print(y1)

cat("Sorting with an 'English' locale:\n")
y2 <- withLocale(sort(x), "LC_COLLATE", c("en_US", "en_US.UTF8", "English_United States.1252"))
print(y2)
# }

Documentation reproduced from package R.utils, version 2.7.0, License: LGPL (>= 2.1)

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