I am seeing very strange behaviour in R 3.2.0 patched (r68272) and a new build of R-devel. The sessioninfo() from the former is below.
Here's what I see: If I set the locale, and trigger a namespace load, a version comparison gives NA, and I get an error. For example, in a new session started with R --vanilla from the terminal: > Sys.setlocale(locale='en_US.UTF-8');grid::gpar() [1] "en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8" Error in if (R_version_built_under < "3.0.0") stop(gettextf("package %s was built before R 3.0.0: please re-install it", : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed I've tried debugging this, and the bad lines are these, in loadNamespace: R_version_built_under <- as.numeric_version(built$R) if (R_version_built_under < "3.0.0") stop(gettextf("package %s was built before R 3.0.0: please re-install it", sQuote(basename(pkgpath))), call. = FALSE, domain = NA) These are in the src/library/base/R/namespace.R file, around line 379. If I stop it before the if and evaluate R_version_built_under, it looks fine. If I stop it there and evaluate R_version_built_under < "3.0.0" I get NA. If I evaluate it again without changing anything, I get FALSE. Does anyone else see this? Any ideas on what might be the cause? > sessionInfo() R version 3.2.0 Patched (2015-04-28 r68272) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit) Running under: OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks) locale: [1] en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/C/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel