[Rd] Encoding problem in Rd file

Sun Oct 3 20:09:54 CEST 2010

I see C:/R\R-2.11.1\share\texmf\Rd.sty which is my current R
installation. By the way, there is no error during the compilation
with

 R CMD Rd2dvi --no-clean dja.Rd

So, it looks that the problem is located elsewhere...

Thank you for your help.

All the best,

Renaud

2010/10/3 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>:
> On 03/10/2010 1:14 PM, Renaud Lancelot wrote:
>>
>> Thank you very much. My LaTeX installation is up to date (very
>> recently updated with MIKTeK update facility).
>> I have run R CMD Rd2dvi --no-clean dja.Rd and the result looks OK. I
>> have put the resulting TeX file at
>> http://filex.cirad.fr/get?k=K1cBpKr3UBUmdOJFMlx
>>
>> Do you have another suggestion?
>
> Not really, other than trying a LaTeX expert.  When I run your file through
> latex using
>
> R CMD latex Rd2.tex
>
> it compiles fine with no errors (only an "underfull hbox" warning).
>
> One thought:  some people install copies of Rd.sty into their local tex
> installation.  If that version isn't compatible with the current macros
> generated by R, you could have problems.  You should see something like
>
> (F:/R/svn/r-devel/R/share/texmf/tex/latex\Rd.sty
> Package: Rd
>
> in the Rd2.log file.  If you see that it finds Rd.sty outside of the current
> R version, delete the old file.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
>>
>> Renaud
>>
>> 2010/10/3 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> On 03/10/2010 12:23 PM, Renaud Lancelot wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> I have a problem with an Rd file containing French accentuated
>>>> characters. I have uploaded the file at
>>>> http://filex.cirad.fr/get?k=cjW7lImMaNC6Ci2vX0H
>>>>
>>>> I have declared
>>>> Encoding: latin1
>>>> in the package DESCRIPTION file
>>>>
>>>> and I have added
>>>> \encoding{latin1}
>>>> in the header of the Rd file.
>>>>
>>>> When I compile the package manual, I have LaTeX errors:
>>>>
>>>> ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:ÃF not set up for use with
>>>> LaTeX.
>>>>
>>>> See the inputenc package documentation for explanation.
>>>> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>>>>  ...
>>>>
>>>> l.579 ...ain. Aspects mÃ©thodologiques.} Rev. Ã  F
>>>>                                                 augÃ¨re, O., DockÃ¨s,
>>>> A.-C...
>>>
>>> R converts everything to UTF-8 and declares it that way for LaTeX. It
>>> looks
>>> as though your LaTeX installation isn't prepared to handle that, or
>>> something has gone wrong in the conversion on your system.  The letter
>>> following "Rev. " above is a capital E with an acute accent, which is
>>> encoded as C3 89 in UTF-8.  Interpreted as Latin1, that looks like "Ã",
>>> because the 89 is unprintable, but it shouldn't come out as "ÃF".
>>>
>>> I'd suggest updating your LaTeX inputenc package.  If that doesn't work,
>>> you
>>> can see if the problem is in the conversion, by running
>>>
>>> R CMD Rd2dvi --no-clean dja.Rd
>>>
>>> and look in the Rd2.tex file that was produced.
>>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>
>>>> Your command was ignored.
>>>> Type  I <command> <return>  to replace it with another command,
>>>> or  <return>  to continue without it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:ÃF not set up for use with
>>>> LaTeX.
>>>>
>>>> See the inputenc package documentation for explanation.
>>>> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>>>>  ...
>>>>
>>>> l.581 Ã  F
>>>>         augÃ¨re, O., Tillard, E., FaugÃ¨re, B., 1992. \emph{Prophylaxie
>>>> ch...
>>>>
>>>> Your command was ignored.
>>>> Type  I <command> <return>  to replace it with another command,
>>>> or  <return>  to continue without it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:Ã\end not set up for use with
>>>> LaTeX.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> See the inputenc package documentation for explanation.
>>>> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>>>>  ...
>>>>
>>>> l.587 \end
>>>>         {References}
>>>> Your command was ignored.
>>>> Type  I <command> <return>  to replace it with another command,
>>>> or  <return>  to continue without it.
>>>>
>>>> ***********
>>>> I can easily find the offending lines using
>>>> showNonASCII(readLines(file)). However, I don't know what to do to
>>>> solve the problem. The strange thing (to me!) is that the pdf is
>>>> actually built with appropriate accentuated characters, at least when
>>>> I look at it with my pdf viewer (Acrobat reader).
>>>>
>>>> My config is:
>>>>
>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>
>>>> R version 2.11.1 Patched (2010-09-30 r53117)
>>>> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32 (32-bit)
>>>>
>>>> locale:
>>>> [1] LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252  LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252
>>>> [3] LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
>>>> [5] LC_TIME=French_France.1252
>>>>
>>>> attached base packages:
>>>> [1] tools     stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
>>>> [8] base
>>>>
>>>> other attached packages:
>>>> [1] fortunes_1.4-0
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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