[Tikzdevice-bugs] Encoding problems in package vignettes

[Mathieu Ribatet]

Me either I did use "\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}" in my .Rnw file --- well actually in a separate file "layout.sty".

Best,
Mathieu

Le 30 mars 2011 à 19:02, Martin Maechler a écrit :

> 2011/3/30 Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>:
>> This concerns packages
>> 
>> Animal CNVassoc DOSim MAMA NMF POT SpatialExtremes actuar adehabitatHR
>> alphahull amer aplpack caret catnet chemometrics compareGroups doBy dr expm
>> fitdistrplus gRbase geepack genoPlotR ghyp hwde interval marelac mhsmm
>> mhurdle nlstools nonrandom nsRFA psych rangeMapper scatterplot3d soiltexture
>> spBayes svcR tikzDevice varcompci
>> 
>> As you can see from the CRAN package check page at
>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary.html, R-pre and R-devel
>> are reporting that one or more of the vignettes from your package have an
>> undeclared encoding.  This may be causing problems on your own machine or on
>> one of the check machines.  In quite a few cases this seems to be
>> unintentional, with e.g. directional quotes or times sign in CP1252 being
>> used instead of the correct LaTeX markup and hence the PDF contains
>> incorrect glyphs.
>> 
>> To find non-ASCII input, you can use
>> tools::showNonASCII(readLines('foo.Rnw'))
>> 
>> It is most portable if you can have ASCII vignettes, but if you really need
>> another encoding the way to declare it is
>> 
>> \usepackage[foo]{inputenc}
>> 
>> in the preamble of your vignette, where 'foo' is preferably latin1 or utf8
>> (but latin9 and ansinew seem to work for existing packages).
> 
> Thank you very much, Brian, for the 'heads up'.
> However, in  'expm' , we've had a line
> '  \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}'
> 
> (note the two leading spaces).
> 
> So, I think the glitch here is in the check.
> Martin
> 
>> The 'Writing R Extensions' manual in 2.13.0 beta covers all this.
>> 
>> Can we please have updated versions with these problems corrected.  It is
>> also a good time to check your package under 2.13.0 beta (or R-devel), and
>> Kurt will expect other problems shown on the check page to be resolved.
>> 
>> Brian Ripley
>> 
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