withLocale: Evaluate an R expression with locale set temporarily

In R.utils: Various Programming Utilities

Evaluate an R expression with locale set temporarily

Description

Evaluate an R expression with locale set temporarily.

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.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson

See Also

Internally, eval() is used to evaluate the expression. and Sys.setlocale() to set locale.

Examples

# 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)

R.utils documentation built on Nov. 18, 2023, 1:09 a.m.