[R] invalid \uxxxx sequence while trying to create a package

[Charles Annis, P.E.]

Thank you, Professor Ripley!

LazyLoad:FALSE in my DESCRIPTION file was the charm!  

(It took a bit of looking to determine the correct syntax.  A search for
"lazyloading" in "Writing R Extensions" was a red herring, but a search on
CRAN suggesting "lazy loading"  - obvious in hindsight, of course -  sent me
back to "Writing ..." and the correct syntax.)

Thank you very much for the rescue.  (I will revisit lazy loading when
R-2.7.0 arrives.)

Again, my sincere gratitude!


Charles Annis, P.E.

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-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On
Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 3:50 AM
To: Duncan Murdoch
Cc: r-help at r-project.org; Charles.Annis at statisticalengineering.com
Subject: Re: [R] invalid \uxxxx sequence while trying to create a package

Now, I wonder who Duncan meant by

    'one person on the list who can diagnose the problem'

?

Hint: small packages are not selected for lazyloading, so do your example 
with lazy loading set in the DESCRIPTION file.

If I do that, the example runs in R-devel but not in 2.6.2.  It is 
a locale issue: the C locale is used where that sequence is not valid.
(This is necessary: it is not valid in Japanese either and the run-time 
locale need not be the same as the install-time locale -- fortunately for 
the distribution of binary packages.)

I would suggest that you do not use \uxxxx sequences on Windows until 
2.7.0.  Here \xe2 will work equally well, or if you want to be as portable 
as possible iconv("\xe2", "latin1", "").  Or turn lazyloading off and rely 
on run-time parsing.

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On 21/03/2008 6:01 PM, Charles Annis, P.E. wrote:
>> I'm running R2.6.2 on a DELL box with 2gig RAM, using Rtools (v26).
>>
>> I have a perplexing problem trying to build a package.
>>
>> I've created a small demonstration:
>>
>> problem.demo  <- function ()
>> {cat("\n          ***   \u00e2 vs a    ***\n")}
>>
>>
>> This function runs in an R gui session and Rtools makes a simple package
>> containing it alone or with a handful of similar routines.
>>
>> However, when I include it with a much bigger package (that Rtools has no
>> trouble in packaging without it), the result is an invalid \uxxxx
sequence:
>>
>> Compile time: 0 minutes, 3 seconds
>> 171     Topics
>> 342     Local links
>> 171     Internet links
>> 1       Graphic
>>
>>
>> Created
>> c:\DOCUME~1\CHARLE~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\Rbuild406495938\mh1823\chm\mh1823.chm,
>> 149,803 bytes
>> Compression decreased file by 398,668 bytes.
>>   preparing package mh1823 for lazy loading
>> Loading required package: rcom
>> Loading required package: RODBC
>> Loading required package: RColorBrewer
>> Loading required package: survival
>> Loading required package: splines
>> Error in parse(n = -1, file = file) : invalid \uxxxx sequence
>> Calls: <Anonymous> -> code2LazyLoadDB -> sys.source -> parse
>> Execution halted
>> make: *** [lazyload] Error 1
>> *** Installation of mh1823 failed ***
>>
>> Removing 'C:/DOCUME~1/CHARLE~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/Rinst406445831/mh1823'
>>
>> Clearly I am overlooking something obvious, so I would greatly appreciate
>> any guidance.
>
> The general rules apply.
>
> "Make it reproducible".
>
> You've done that for yourself, but you haven't given instructions that
> let anyone else reproduce it.
>
> If you simplify your example to a minimal one that reproduces the error,
> there's a good chance you'll spot what is wrong:  but if not, there's a
> good chance someone else will be able to.
>
> If you post error messages without the code that causes them, there
> might be one person on the list who can diagnose the problem, but he's
> awfully busy.  Post complete instructions for reproducing it.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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