`standardize()` fails in some cases #1996

Job	Run time
R-CMD-check / macOS-latest (release)	45s
R-CMD-check / windows-latest (devel)	7m 0s
R-CMD-check / windows-latest (release)	6m 26s
R-CMD-check / ubuntu-latest (devel)	5m 25s
R-CMD-check / ubuntu-latest (release)	5m 16s
	24m 52s

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