[Rd] Small encoding question

[Simon Urbanek]

On Feb 14, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Kurt Hornik wrote:

>>>>>> Vincent Goulet writes:
>
>> Dear developeRs,
>> Compilation of the latest version (0.9-5) of my actuar package fails
>> with r-release MacOS_X ix86 on CRAN; see
>
>> 	http://www.R-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-ix86/actuar-00check.html
>
>> All errors come from accented letters in comments in latin-1 encoded
>> files (except hierarc.R which is in UTF-8, my bad). Encoding is
>> declared as latin-1 in DESCRIPTION.
>
>> The package checks and compiles fine on Windows, Linux and,
>> ironically, my MacOS X main development machine. I realize using non-
>> ASCII characters in source files is not a good idea and I removed
>> them, but I would appreciate any clue as to what went wrong with the
>> compilation on CRAN.
>
> I assume that the MacOS X builds are done in a C locale?
>

Yes - but isn't this very similar to the problem we have been talking  
about a while back? The check analyses were reporting an error  
although the code was fine (I think it boiled down to text connection  
I/O in the check scripts failing mysteriously due to the fact that it  
was using the wrong encoding) I'll have to check later today ...

Cheers,
S


>
>> FWIW,
>
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08)
>> i386-apple-darwin8.10.1
>
>> locale:
>> fr_CA.UTF-8/fr_CA.UTF-8/fr_CA.UTF-8/C/fr_CA.UTF-8/fr_CA.UTF-8
>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     utils     datasets  grDevices graphics  methods   base
>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] CarbonEL_0.1-4
>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] tools_2.6.2
>
>> Thanks in advance!
>
>> ---
>>   Vincent Goulet, Associate Professor
>>   École d'actuariat
>>   Université Laval, Québec
>>   Vincent.Goulet at act.ulaval.ca   http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca
>
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