[Rd] make check for 2.5.1 RC fails on mbcsToSbcs in graphics

[Petr Savicky]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 04:20:39PM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> But you can't really avoid it if you want to test non-ASCII
> features: for example, you cannot test Latin-1 graphics in a C locale.
> 
> It was intended that the postscript device opened for testing graphics was 
> opened with encoding="ISOLatin1".  That should certainly have helped, at 
> least in a UTF-8 locale, but unfortunately there were a couple of typos in 
> tests/Examples/Makefile.  Fixing that file makes 'make check' work in 
> cs_CZ.utf8 at least on my machine.
> 
> It still remains that (for examples) you cannot successfully run make 
> check in a MBCS locale without iconv, nor will zh_CN.gbk nor zh_TW.big5 
> work.  I've added a note to R-admin to say that you may need to try a 
> suitable locale.

I applied the following patch obtained by comparing R-devel_2007-06-26 and R-devel_2007-06-27

--- D070626/R-devel/tests/Examples/Makefile.in	2007-05-10 17:50:54.000000000 +0200
+++ D070627/R-devel/tests/Examples/Makefile.in	2007-06-27 17:50:09.000000000 +0200
@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@
 	@if test -f $@; then mv $@ $@.prev; fi
 	@echo $(ECHO_N) "running code in '$<' ...$(ECHO_C)"
 	@echo 'tools:::.convert_examples("graphics-Ex.R", "graphics-Ex.R-locale", "latin1")' | $(R) --slave > /dev/null 2>&1 || exit 1
-	@sed -e 's/grDevices::postscript("graphics-Ex.ps")/grDevices::postscript("graphics-Ex.ps",encoding="ISOlatin1")/' graphics-Ex.R-locale \
-	  | $(R) < graphics-Ex.R-locale  > $@ 2>&1 || (mv $@ $@.fail && exit 1)
+	@sed -e 's/grDevices::postscript("graphics-Ex.ps")/grDevices::postscript("graphics-Ex.ps",encoding="ISOLatin1")/' graphics-Ex.R-locale \
+	  | $(R) > $@ 2>&1 || (mv $@ $@.fail && exit 1)
 	@rm graphics-Ex.R-locale
 	@echo "$(ECHO_T) OK"
 	@if test -f $@.prev; then \

to my copy of R-2.5.1. Then, make check works with no error in cs_CZ.UTF-8 locale
also on my machine. Thank you for the correction.

Petr.