[R] Rd-file error: non-ASCII input and no declared encoding

Christian Hennig chrish at stats.ucl.ac.uk
Wed Sep 1 16:33:50 CEST 2010


Dear Gavin,

very well spotted => solved!
Thanks also Duncan!

Christian

On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, Gavin Simpson wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 15:09 +0100, Christian Hennig wrote:
>> Dear list,
>> 
>> I came across the following error for three of my newly written Rd-files:
>> non-ASCII input and no declared encoding
>
> I'm not sure, but is it the m- or n-dash character for the page range in
> the \source{} section?
>
> 2317–2331
>   ^^^
>
> replace it with 2317-2331 and see if it helps.
>
> HTH
>
> G
>
>> I can't make sense of this.
>> 
>> Below I copied in one of the three files.
>> Can anybody please tell me what's wrong with it?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Christian
>> 
>> \name{tetragonula}
>> \alias{tetragonula}
>> \alias{tetragonula.coord}
>> \docType{data}
>> % \non_function{}
>> \title{Microsatellite genetic data of Tetragonula bees}
>> \description{
>>    Genetic data for 236 Tetragonula (Apidae) bees from Australia
>>    and Southeast Asia, see  Franck et al. (2004). The data give pairs of
>>    alleles (codominant markers) for 13 microsatellite loci.
>> }
>> \usage{data(tetragonula)}
>> \format{
>>    Two objects are generated:
>>    \describe{
>>      \item{tetragonula}{A data frame with 236 observations and 13 string
>>      variables. Strings consist of six digits each. The
>>      format is derived from the data format used by the software GENEPOP
>>      (Rousset 2010). Alleles have a three digit code, so a value of
>>      \code{"258260"} on variable V10 means that on locus 10 the two alleles
>>      have codes 258 and 260. \code{"000"} refers to missing values.}
>>      \item{tetragonula.coord}{a 236*2 matrix. Coordinates of locations of
>>      individuals in decimal format, i.e. the first number is latitude
>>      (negative values are South), with minutes and seconds
>>      converted to fractions. The second number is longitude (negative
>>      values are West).}
>>    }
>> }
>> \source{
>>    Franck, P., E. Cameron, G. Good, J.-Y. Rasplus, and B. P. Oldroyd
>>    (2004) Nest architecture and genetic differentiation in a species
>>    complex of Australian stingless bees. \emph{Mol. Ecol.} 13, 2317–2331.
>>
>>    Rousset, F. (2010) Genepop 4.0 for Windows and Linux.
>>    \url{http://kimura.univ-montp2.fr/~rousset/Genepop.pdf}
>> }
>> \details{
>>     Reads from example data file \code{Heterotrigona_indoFO.txt}.
>> }
>> 
>> \examples{
>> data(tetragonula)
>> }
>> \keyword{datasets}
>> 
>> 
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