[R] Rd files with unknown encoding?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Spencer Graves wrote:

>
>      How can I identify the problem generating a warning in R CMD check
> for "Rd files with unknown encoding"?
>
>      Google identified an email from John Fox with a reply from Brian
> Ripley about this last 12 Jun 2007.

But not on this list:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-June/046055.html

R-devel would have been more appropriate for this too.

>  This suggests that I may have accidentally entered some possibly 
> non-printing character into the offending Rd file.  The message tells me 
> which file, but I don't know which lines in the file.  Is there some way 
> of finding the offending character(s) without laboriously running R CMD 
> check after deleting different portions of the file until I isolate the 
> problem?

I did say so in that thread:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-June/046061.html

You can do much the same in R via iconv("", "C", sub="byte"), provided you 
can read the file in (it may not be representable in your current 
locale, but you could run R in a Latin-1 locale, if your OS has one).

-- 
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