[R-pkg-devel] Encoding problem

[David Scott]

Thanks Thierry, that indeed was the problem.

I am not sure who to advise to correct the documentation in Writing R 
Extensions though because I was following the instructions there:

"... the encoding may be declared using a comment like

%!\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8}

If the encoding is UTF-8, this can also be declared using the declaration

%!\SweaveUTF8"


The same instruction appears in all the versions of WRE that I checked, 
HTML and PDF, R-release, R-patched and R-devel.

I have copied in Duncan and Martin in the expectation they might ensure 
a correction.

David

On 31/01/2017 4:10 a.m., Thierry Onkelinx wrote:
> Dear David,
>
> Have you tried removing the exclamation mark in 
> %!\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8}? I think it should be %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8}
>
> Best regards,
>
> ir. Thierry Onkelinx
> Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature 
> and Forest
> team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
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> 1070 Anderlecht
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>
> To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no 
> more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be 
> able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
> The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner
> The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does 
> not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body 
> of data. ~ John Tukey
>
> 2017-01-29 13:40 GMT+01:00 David Scott <d.scott at auckland.ac.nz 
> <mailto:d.scott at auckland.ac.nz>>:
>
>     I am trying to add a vignette to xtable showing how to incorporate
>     some Chinese characters following an enquiry from a user.
>
>     I can create the vignette satisfactorily just processing the knitr
>     file normally, with the resulting pdf displaying Chinese
>     characters in the R code and also as headings when I produce a
>     table. However when I try to build the package with the vignette
>     included, I get:
>
>     * creating vignettes ...Warning: running command
>     '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.2/bin/x64/Rscript" --vanilla
>      ERROR
>     Error: Vignette 'ChineseCharacters.Rnw' is non-ASCII but has no
>     declared encoding
>     Execution halted
>     make: *** [build] Error 1
>
>     I updated R to 3.3.2 and Rtools to 33 before running the build.
>
>     The vignette starts as follows:
>
>     %\VignetteIndexEntry{xtable Chinese Characters}
>     %\VignetteDepends{xtable}
>     %\VignetteKeywords{LaTeX, HTML, table}
>     %\VignettePackage{xtable}
>     % !Rnw weave = knitr
>     % \VignetteEngine{knitr::knitr}
>     %!\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8}
>     %**************************************************************************
>     \documentclass{ctexart}
>     \usepackage{longtable}
>     \usepackage{booktabs}
>     \usepackage{array}
>     \usepackage{hyperref}
>     \usepackage{inputenx}
>
>     The section of the file which is not ASCII is:
>
>     <<preparedata>>=
>     ### Prepare data
>     library(knitr)
>     library(xtable)
>
>     tbl <- data.frame(positivePairs = 0, negativePairs = 0,
>                       avePositiveSpread = NA,
>                       aveNegativeSpread = NA,
>                       PnL = 435, sumPnL = 144358.7)
>     names(tbl) <- c("ÕýÏò¿ª²Ö", "¸ºÏò¿ª²Ö", "ÕýÏò¿ª²Öƽ¾ù¼Û²î",
>                     "¸ºÏò¿ª²Öƽ¼Û¼Û²î", "µ±ÈÕËðÒæ", "ÀÛ¼ÆËðÒæ")
>     @
>
>     I am a bit of a novice at encodings, and know nothing about
>     Chinese characters so any advice is welcome.
>
>     David Scott
>
>
>
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