[Rd] Encoding problem in Rd file

Mon Oct 4 00:59:20 CEST 2010

I found the problem. It turned out that the coding system of the Rd
file (as defined under Emacs) was mistakenly set by me to a wrong
value. I had to define it as iso-latin-1, and then retype the
accentuated characters under this new system. Everything looks OK,
now. Sorry for bothering you.

2010/10/3 Renaud Lancelot <renaud.lancelot at gmail.com>:
> 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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>
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>
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-- 
Renaud Lancelot
EDEN Project, coordinator
http://www.eden-fp6project.net/

UMR CIRAD-INRA "Contrôle des maladies animales exotiques et émergentes"
Joint research unit "Control of emerging and exotic animal diseases"

CIRAD, Campus International de Baillarguet TA A-DIR / B
F34398 Montpellier
http://umr-cmaee.cirad.fr/

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