[Rd] Sweave output encoding in R-2.10.0beta on Windows (Rgui <-> Rterm)

[Martin Becker]

Ok,

apparently the most interesting attachement did not pass the filters 
(probably because of the utf-8 encoding...).
Maybe it is still helpful to copy&paste the Sweave output (with uft-8 
part) for R-2.10.0beta invoked via Rgui --vanilla:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{c:/Programme/R/R-2.10.0beta/share/texmf/Sweave}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
%\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[german]{babel}

\begin{document}
\begin{Schunk}
\begin{Sinput}
 > Umlaute <- c("ä", "ö", "ü", "ß")
 > Umlaute
\end{Sinput}
\begin{Soutput}
ÿþ[1] "ä" "ö" "ü" "ß"ÿþ
\end{Soutput}
\end{Schunk}
\end{document}

Best wishes,

Martin



Martin Becker wrote:
> Dear developers,
>
> I have come across a (somewhat strange) change in the encoding of 
> Sweave output from R-2.9.2pat to R-2.10.0beta (apparently specific to 
> Rgui) on Windows installations. Of course, the NEWS file contains 
> quite a few changes concerning encoding, but I was not able to locate 
> an entry which explains the observed behaviour. I am not very familiar 
> with encodings/locales/codepages, but I will try to explain my 
> observations as best I can.
>
> In R-2.9.2pat, when invoking R via Rgui --vanilla (output of 
> seesionInfo() below), the output of Sweave for .rnw files containing 
> german umlaute (latin1-encoded) is again latin1-encoded (the resulting 
> .tex-file compiles with \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} and 
> \usepackage[german]{babel}).
> In R-2.10.0beta, however, when invoking R via Rgui --vanilla (output 
> of seesionInfo() below), some of Sweave's output (more precisely, 
> Soutput environments containing german umlaute, Sinput environments 
> with german umlaute are still latin1) is utf-8 encoded (with some 
> extra characters at the start and the end, which could be BOMs). 
> Surprisingly, when R is invoked from (Windows) command line (R 
> --vanilla or Rterm --vanilla), the encoding is completely latin1 again 
> (as in R-2.9.2pat). So, the change to utf-8 encoding for parts of 
> Sweave's output seems to be specific to Rgui.
>
> Of course, I can work around this problem by using Rterm instead of 
> Rgui when Sweav'ing, but I am not sure if the current behaviour of R 
> via Rgui is as intended.
> I will try to attach the .rnw - file as well as the resulting .tex - 
> files (and hope, that the attachements pass through).
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Martin
>
>
>
> sessionInfo() for R-2.9.2pat (same for Rgui, R, Rterm):
> R version 2.9.2 Patched (2009-09-24 r50041)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252;LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252;LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252 
>
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
> sessionInfo() for R-2.10.0beta (same for Rgui, R, Rterm):
> R version 2.10.0 beta (2009-10-11 r50037)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252 LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252 [3] 
> LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C [5] 
> LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
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Dr. Martin Becker
Statistics and Econometrics
Saarland University
Campus C3 1, Room 206
66123 Saarbruecken
Germany