[Rd] UTF8 markdown vignette

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 09/12/2014, 4:48 AM, ONKELINX, Thierry wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I'm trying to use a Markdown vignette with UTF-8 encoding. It compiles well when knitting the vignette in RStudio, but it fails to recognize the UTF-8 settings when building the source package. Can someone point out what I'm doing wrong? I tried to put the relevant information below.

You don't describe the symptoms of "failing to recognize", but from the
look of it, this is a problem with the knitr::rmarkdown engine or with
the devtools packaging, so you should probably ask on an RStudio forum.

Duncan Murdoch

> Best regards,
> 
> Thierry
> 
> Details:
> 
> Using 64-bit R 3.1.2 with encoding = "native.enc" on Windows 7 with Rstudio 0.97.1091.
> 
> The source packages is build using the devtools package. The build command is R --vanilla CMD build  "myPackage" --no-manual  --no-resave-data
> 
> The DESCRIPTION file has
> 
> VignetteBuilder: knitr
> Suggests: knitr
> Imports: rmarkdown
> 
> The markdown vignette YAML contains
> vignette: >
>   %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown}
>   %\VignetteIndexEntry{The title}
>   \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> 
> The custom output style converts the markdown to beamer with the --latex-engine = xelatex flag.
> 
> The vignette in tar.gz passes R --vanilla CMD check  --timings --as-cran
> 
> * checking files in 'vignettes' ... OK
> * checking for unstated dependencies in vignettes ... OK
> * checking package vignettes in 'inst/doc' ... OK
> * checking running R code from vignettes ...
>    'markdown_intro.Rmd' using 'UTF-8' ... OK
> OK
> * checking re-building of vignette outputs ... [22s] OK
> 
> 
> 
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