[Tikzdevice-bugs] Encoding problems in package vignettes

[Martin Maechler]

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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