[Rd] Use of Rd2txt on .Rd files from rw-1.0.0 (PR#498)

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

How did you get the files from Windows to Solaris?  I suspect you have
CRLF line endings (which emacs tolerates).  Try converting to LF
(e.g. by MULE on emacs setting the coding).  It is a bit much to expext
Unix systems to accept Windows files.


On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 john.maindonald@anu.edu.au wrote:

> >From e980153 Tue Mar 21 18:50:55 2000
> To: bates@stat.wisc.edu
> Subject: Use of Rd2txt on .Rd files from rw-1.0.0
> 
> Files generated using prompt.data.frame() under rw-1.0.0 get
> scrambled (mildly) when I process them under Rd2txt on Solaris,
> (using R-devel 1.1.0).
> Files generated under R-devel 1.1 on Solaris are processed ok.
> 
> The .Rd files from the two sources look identical. The problem 
> is likely to be with Rd2txt, I guess.
> 
> Here is an example.  I give only the first part of the output,
> where the problem occurs.
> =========================================================
> Kiwifruit data
> 
> Description:
> 
>  Kiwifruitkiwishade' data frame has 48 rows and 3 columns.
>      shading trial
> 
> Format:
> 
>      This data frame contains the following columns:
> 
>       yield a numeric vector
> 
>  `west'  ck a factor with levels
> 
>  `Feb2May'  a factor with levels
>             `none' 
> 
> Details:
> 
> ............
> =========================================================
> 
> Here is what I expected to get, and do get when the .Rd file
> is generated under Solaris:
> 
> =========================================================
> Kiwifruit data
> 
> Description:
> 
>      The `kiwishade' data frame has 48 rows and 3 columns. Kiwifruit
>      shading trial
> 
> Format:
> 
>      This data frame contains the following columns:
> 
>       yield a numeric vector
> 
>       block a factor with levels `east'  `north'  `west' 
> 
>       shade a factor with levels `Aug2Dec'  `Dec2Feb'  `Feb2May' 
>             `none'
> ............
> =========================================================
> 
> Here is the .Rd file, from the PC, then editing using emacs
> under Solaris.  However the same scrambling occurs when the
> files is processed without editing.
> =========================================================
> \name{kiwishade}
> \alias{kiwishade}
> \non_function{}
> \title{Kiwifruit data}
> \description{
> The \code{kiwishade} data frame has 48 rows and 3 columns.
> Kiwifruit shading trial
> }
> \format{
> This data frame contains the following columns:
> \describe{
> \item{yield}{
> a numeric vector
> }
> \item{block}{
> a factor with levels
> \code{east} 
> \code{north} 
> \code{west} 
> }
> \item{shade}{
> a factor with levels
> \code{Aug2Dec} 
> \code{Dec2Feb} 
> \code{Feb2May} 
> \code{none} 
> }
> }
> }
> \details{
> 
> }
> \source{
> Snelgar at al.
> }
> \examples{
> data(kiwishade)
> }
> \keyword{datasets}
> =========================================================
> 
> John Maindonald               email : john.maindonald@anu.edu.au        
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