[Rd] suggestion to fix packageDescription() for Windows users
Duncan Murdoch
murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Fri Jun 23 14:16:01 CEST 2017
On 18/06/2017 5:57 AM, Andrie de Vries wrote:
> Hi, Duncan
>
> i have forwarded this thread to Nathan, who promised to look into it.
Any progress on this?
Duncan Murdoch
>
> Andrie
>
> On 17 Jun 2017 17:26, "Duncan Murdoch" <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
> <mailto:murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On 17/06/2017 9:13 AM, Ben Marwick wrote:
>
> Hi Duncan,
>
> Thanks for your reply. Yes, it does seem to be specific to the CTYPE
> setting to Chinese on Windows. If I set it to English using
> Sys.setlocale() there is no problem, then back to Chinese and the
> authors disappear:
>
> Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL","English")
> citation("readr")
>
>
> Thanks, that makes the problem reproducible. I'll submit it as a
> bug report. Maybe someone from Microsoft will fix it.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
> #' To cite package ‘readr’ in publications use:
> #'
> #' Hadley Wickham, Jim Hester and Romain Francois (2017).
> readr: Read
> #' Rectangular Text Data. R package version 1.1.1.
> #' https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr
> <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr>
> #'
> #' A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
> #'
> #' @Manual{,
> #' title = {readr: Read Rectangular Text Data},
> #' author = {Hadley Wickham and Jim Hester and Romain Francois},
> #' year = {2017},
> #' note = {R package version 1.1.1},
> #' url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr
> <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr>},
> #' }
>
>
> Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", "Chinese")
> citation("readr")
>
> #'
> #' To cite package ‘readr’ in publications use:
> #'
> #' (2017). readr: Read Rectangular Text Data. R package
> version 1.1.1.
> #' https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr
> <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr>
> #'
> #' A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
> #'
> #' @Manual{,
> #' title = {readr: Read Rectangular Text Data},
> #' year = {2017},
> #' note = {R package version 1.1.1},
> #' url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr
> <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr>},
> #' }
> #'
> #' ATTENTION: This citation information has been auto-generated
> from the
> #' package DESCRIPTION file and may need manual editing, see
> #' ‘help("citation")’.
>
> Where do we go from here? I do want to use the Chinese locale
> with R on
> Windows (and perhaps others do too), so switching the locale
> isn't a fix.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
>
> On 17/06/2017 10:36 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
> On 17/06/2017 7:10 AM, Ben Marwick wrote:
>
> Recently I was trying to cite a package where the
> authors have ä
> and ø in their names. I found that on Windows the
> citation() function
> did not return the authors' names at all, but on Linux
> there was no
> problem (sessionInfos at the bottom):
>
> On Windows, no author names are returned:
>
>
> I'm not seeing this. You have fairly strange localization
> settings; see
> comments below.
>
>
> #---------------
>
> > citation("readr")
>
> To cite package ‘readr’ in publications use:
>
> (2017). readr: Read Rectangular Text Data. R package
> version 1.1.1.
> https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr
> <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr>
>
> A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
>
> @Manual{,
> title = {readr: Read Rectangular Text Data},
> year = {2017},
> note = {R package version 1.1.1},
> url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr
> <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr>},
> }
>
> ATTENTION: This citation information has been
> auto-generated from the
> package DESCRIPTION file and may need manual editing, see
> ‘help("citation")’.
> #---------------
>
> On Linux we do see the author names:
>
> #---------------
> > citation("readr")
>
> To cite package ‘readr’ in publications use:
>
> Hadley Wickham, Jim Hester and Romain Francois
> (2017). readr:
> Read Rectangular Text Data. R package version 1.1.1.
> https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr
> <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr>
>
> A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
>
> @Manual{,
> title = {readr: Read Rectangular Text Data},
> author = {Hadley Wickham and Jim Hester and Romain
> Francois},
> year = {2017},
> note = {R package version 1.1.1},
> url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr
> <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr>},
> }
> #---------------
>
> This appears to be an OS-dependent encoding issue. The
> citation function
> does not take an encoding argument, so it's not possible
> to set the
> encoding at the point where that function is used. The
> citation function
> working with the packageDescription function, which does
> have an
> encoding argument, but the default is not useful for
> Windows when there
> is an encoding set in the DESCRIPTION of the package (in
> this case
> UTF-8).
>
> We can set the encoding argument in packageDescription
> so it works in
> Windows to give the authors as expected, but it is very
> inconvenient to
> generate citations directly from the output of this
> function. So I'd
> like to propose a solution this problem by changing one
> line in the
> packageDescription function, like so, from:
>
> #---------------
> if (missing(encoding) && Sys.getlocale("LC_CTYPE") == "C")
> #---------------
>
> to:
>
> #---------------
> if ((missing(encoding) && Sys.getlocale("LC_CTYPE") ==
> "C") |
> unname(Sys.info()['sysname']) == "Windows")
> #---------------
>
> If I understand correctly, that will force
> ASCII//TRANSLIT encoding when
> DESCRIPTION files are read by packageDescription() on
> Windows machines.
> The upside is that Windows users will get the authors in
> the package
> citation, unlike the current situation. The downside is
> that the exotic
> symbols in the authors' names are replaced with common
> ones that are
> similar.
>
> I think getting the citations to easily include the
> authors' names is
> pretty important, even if their names have exotic
> characters, so this is
> worth fixing. Is this edit to packageDescription the
> best way to solve
> this problem of exotic characters preventing the
> authors' names from
> showing on Windows?
>
> thanks,
>
> Ben
>
>
>
>
> Windows sessionInfo
>
> #---------------
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 3.4.0 Patched (2017-05-10 r72670)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
>
> Matrix products: default
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=Chinese (Simplified)_People's Republic of
> China.936
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252
>
>
> I don't know what English_Australia.1252 does that's
> different from what
> I use (English_Canada.1252), but the Chinese locale setting
> could cause
> trouble. Could you try setting this (presumably in the
> Windows control
> panel) to be consistent? You're using a much simpler
> setting on Linux.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets
> methods base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] readr_1.1.1 compiler_3.4.0 R6_2.2.1 hms_0.3
> tools_3.4.0
> [6] tibble_1.3.3 yaml_2.1.14 Rcpp_0.12.11
> knitr_1.16
> rlang_0.1.1
> [11] fortunes_1.5-4
> #---------------
>
> Linux sessionInfo:
>
> #---------------
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> Running under: Ubuntu 16.10
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets
> methods base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_3.3.1 yaml_2.1.14 knitr_1.16
> #---------------
>
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