[Rd] Mac OS X 2.5.1 / reg-plot.R / tr (PR#10781)

[ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]

Please do as we ask in both the FAQ and posting guide and check the 
current working copy of R, which does this differently.

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, A.R.Runnalls at kent.ac.uk wrote:

> In building R 2.6.2 from source for Mac OS X 2.5.1 (with
> i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1), 'make check' fails.  The failure is in
> reg-plot.R, and occurs because Mac OS X's 'tr' command (invoked by Rdiff
> to strip carriage returns) regards the dagger sign in reg-plot.ps as an
> illegal byte sequence.

Known for certain locales: we do ask you to report yours (part of the 'at 
a minimum' information requested in the posting guide).

> I'm surprised that this doesn't seem to have been reported before, but
> it was already present at least in R 2.6.1

It has been, and fixed before!  From the svn logs

r44231 | ripley | 2008-01-29 12:45:00 +0000 (Tue, 29 Jan 2008) | 1 line

MacOS tr does not cope with Latin-1 chars in a UTF-8 locale

> Incidentally, couldn't the handling of line endings now be left to
> svn:eol-style?

Have you read the code concerned?  It says

## some packages ship .Rout.save with CRLF endings

and we have no control over what line-endings third-party packages ship 
with.

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