[R-pkg-devel] Conversion failure in 'mbcsToSbcs'

[Package Maintainer]

Dear Ivan:

Thank you again for all your support.

I recently incorporated your suggestion to add the line:

\SweaveOpts{pdf.encoding = ISOLatin2.enc}

to line 32 of my vignette file, the latest copy of which is located
here (https://github.com/lindsayrutter/ggenealogy/blob/master/vignettes/ggenealogy.Rnw).

I don't *believe* I changed or created a plot device either, which you
advised not to do.

I then ran:

1) R CMD build
2) debian-gcc-devel
(https://builder.r-hub.io/status/ggenealogy_1.0.3.tar.gz-fc9f3ff459314bc2bcfd2df00b5c38f3)
3) debian-clang-devel
(https://builder.r-hub.io/status/ggenealogy_1.0.3.tar.gz-fa86bcdc246042e194a7558c018ed19b)

And my .tar file passed all three. So, I then uploaded my .tar file to
the CRAN submission page.

Unfortunately, I received a reply from the CRAN submission team
stating that my vignette file is still obtaining the "mbcsToSbcs"
ERROR as is shown here
(https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/ggenealogy_1.0.3_20240212_152455/Debian/00check.log).

The latest version of my package and its vignette code is on my
GitHub: https://github.com/lindsayrutter/ggenealogy/blob/master/vignettes/ggenealogy.Rnw

I'm still a bit at a loss on how to resolve this issue. I would be all
ears if you (and/or others) might have any further advice.

Thank you again for your patience and support.

Kind regards,
LAR

PS: Thanks for the advice about plain text mode. Hopefully, I have
correctly abide by that advice in this current email.


On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 3:25 PM Ivan Krylov <krylov.r00t using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 19 Nov 2023 13:53:52 +0000
> Package Maintainer <ggenealogypackage using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I added the code you suggested to the package vignette:
>
> It won't work without setting my.Swd as the new plot device instead of
> pdf():
>
> \SweaveOpts{grdevice=my.Swd,pdf=FALSE}
>
> You have this directive commented out a few lines later, inside a code
> block. It should instead be present outside the code block, without a %
> before it.
>
> (It's best to link to a copy of the code available for viewing
> somewhere. While I was able to fish out a copy of your package from the
> CRAN FTP server this time, it is not always possible to do so.)
>
> A less intrusive way to avoid the error is using the following Sweave
> directive:
>
> \SweaveOpts{pdf.encoding = ISOLatin2.enc}
>
> (Without changing the plot device or creating a new plot device in a
> hidden code block.)
>
> > In both those cases, I didn't see the ERROR of "Conversion failure in
> > 'mbcsToSbcs'".
>
> In order to replicate the problem, you need (1) a fairly recent R-devel
> (a pre-release version, e.g. [*]) and (2) the environment variable
> _R_CHECK_MBCS_CONVERSION_FAILURE_ set. R-hub runs recent R-devel but
> doesn't set the environment variable. I don't know for sure, but I
> think that you are running a released version of R. I hope that R-core
> will make this test part of R CMD check --as-cran, making it possible
> to reproduce such failures with just a copy of R-devel, without extra
> environment variables.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Ivan
>
> [*] https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rdevel.html
>
> P.S. Could you please switch your mailer to plain text instead of HTML
> when sending messages to the list? When you compose your e-mail in
> HTML, your mailer automatically prepares a plain text equivalent where
> the code block is seriously mangled. This plain text equivalent is what
> the list subscribers see:
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2023q4/010102.html