[R] Sweave in R 2.13.1 doesn't support cp1250 encoding

[Uwe Ligges]

On 12.07.2011 09:01, Tomaz wrote:
> Prof Brian Ripley<ripley<at>  stats.ox.ac.uk>  writes:
>
>>
>> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Tomaz wrote:
>>
>>> I upgraded R on windows xp from 2.12.2 to 2.13.1 and now I can not
>>> process Rnw files with windows cp1250 encoding. Sweave complains:
>>
>> Which is of course not an ISO Standard encoding.  One way out is to use the
>> ISO encoding latin2, which is supported.


Have you read this and tried latin2?

Uwe Ligges


>>>     file.Rnw declares an encoding that Sweave does not know about
>>>
>>> What can I do beside downgrade R? When will Sweave support more
>>> encodings?  Has anybody found a solution?
>>
>> It is a great pity that you did not raise this during the alpha/beta/RC
>> period of R 2.13.0, and that you did not give the 'at a minimum'
>> information asked for in the posting guide so we do not know your locale.
>> Nor do we have the 'commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible'
>> example we asked for.
>>
>> These things happen because of lack of cooperation from users with unusual
>> requirements.  Note that in several months no one else has reported a need
>> for cp1250.
>>
>> The short answer is that now 2.13.1 was missed, it will be 2.14.0 and
>> 2.13.1 patched: please do try a version of the latter dated tomorrow or
>> later (r56361 or later) since there is no way we can test if the change
>> made is adequate without your example.
>>
>> Next time you wish to request an enhancement to R for an very unusual usage
>> case, please write to R-devel with full details and an example.  Very much
>> preferably, do so during the pre-release testing period.
>>
>>>
>>> Regards, Tomaz
>>>
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>>
>
>
> I don't think that Windows-1250 a.k.a cp1250 encoding is unusual usage case
> as it is default native encoding for Rgui on Windows XP in Slovenia,
> Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, Albania, Croatia, Bosnia and
> Serbia.
>
>
> I'm providing minimal example, it's a modified example from Sweave
> installation.
>
> %%%%%%%%%%% file: example-1.Rnw
>
> \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage[slovene]{babel}
> \usepackage[cp1250]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>
> \title{Sweave Example 1} \author{Friedrich Leisch}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \maketitle
>
> In this example we embed parts of the examples from the \texttt{kruskal.test}
> help page into a \LaTeX{} document:
>
> <<>>= data(airquality, package="datasets") library("stats")
> kruskal.test(Ozone ~ Month, data = airquality) @ which shows that the
> location parameter of the Ozone distribution varies significantly from month
> to month. Finally we include a boxplot of the data:
>
> \begin{center}<<fig=TRUE,echo=FALSE>>= library("graphics") boxplot(Ozone ~
> Month, data = airquality) @ \end{center}
>
> \end{document}
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> Excerpt from R session:
>
>> Sweave("example-1.Rnw")
> Error: 'example-1.Rnw' declares an encoding that Sweave does not know about
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08) Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>
> locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=Slovenian_Slovenia.1250
> LC_CTYPE=Slovenian_Slovenia.1250   [3] LC_MONETARY=Slovenian_Slovenia.1250
> LC_NUMERIC=C                       [5] LC_TIME=Slovenian_Slovenia.1250
>
> attached base packages: [1] tools     stats     graphics  grDevices utils
> datasets  methods  [8] base
>
>
>
> Best regards, Tomaz
>
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