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

[Package Maintainer]

Hello all:

Thank you both for your advice.

I attempted to upload the latest version to CRAN, and again received
the notification that the package did not pass.

It seems there are no warnings or errors (only 2 notes) on windows
(https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/ggenealogy_1.0.3_20240219_122904/Windows/00check.log)
and debian (https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/ggenealogy_1.0.3_20240219_122904/Debian/00check.log).

One of the notes is simply stating that the package has been archived
(which occurred even when I contacted folks before the deadline). The
other note I can fix easily (an unrecognized file type in the main
directory).

The only error delineated to me appears to be from a submission back
in November 2023
(https://cran-archive.r-project.org/web/checks/2023/2023-11-14_check_results_ggenealogy.html).

Is there anything particular I should do?

Thank you.

Kind regards,
LAR

On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 1:18 PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> At line 66 of your document, you have this chunk:
>
> <<echo=FALSE>>=
> rm(list=ls())
> @
>
> That removed the device.  You need to put its definition after that.
> (It might also need to come earlier if you're doing plotting before
> this, and again even later if you remove it again.)
>
> By the way, I'd recommend using knitr for Rnw documents instead of
> Sweave.  It will require a few changes, but in general it's more
> flexible and works a bit better.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
>
> On 17/02/2024 7:51 a.m., Package Maintainer wrote:
> > Dear Ivan:
> >
> > Thank you for your help again.
> >
> > Thanks for your suggestion to use cairo_pdf() instead of pdf() to
> > allow for the multi-lingual plots.
> >
> > I incorporated your advice and added the the code you suggested:
> >
> > <<results=hide,echo=FALSE>>=
> > my.Swd <- function(name, width, height, ...)
> >   grDevices::cairo_pdf(
> >    filename = paste(name, "pdf", sep = "."),
> >    width = width, height = height
> >   )
> > @
> > \SweaveOpts{grdevice=my.Swd,pdf=FALSE}
> >
> > as shown in lines 49-56 in my new vignette file here
> > (https://github.com/lindsayrutter/ggenealogy/blob/master/vignettes/ggenealogy.Rnw).
> >
> > Upon attempting to build (R CMD build ggenealogy), I received the ERROR:
> >
> > Error: processing vignette 'ggenealogy.Rnw' failed with diagnostics:
> > object 'my.Swd' not found
> > --- failed re-building ‘ggenealogy.Rnw’
> >
> > I tried replacing the code you suggested to various locations and
> > separating the \SweaveOpts line to be located at separate locations.
> > However, I received the same ERROR each time.
> >
> > Do you have any suggestions or ideas on how to resolve this error?
> >
> > I again thank you for your help with this issue.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > LAR
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 3:17 PM Ivan Krylov <krylov.r00t using gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> В Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:01:27 +0000
> >> Package Maintainer <ggenealogypackage using gmail.com> пишет:
> >>
> >>> 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).
> >>
> >> I am sorry for leading you down the wrong way with my advice. It turns
> >> out that no 8-bit Type-1 encoding known to pdf() can represent both
> >> 'Lubomír Kubáček' and 'Anders Ågren':
> >>
> >> lapply(
> >>   setNames(nm = c(
> >>    'latin1', 'cp1252', 'latin2', 'latin7',
> >>    'latin-9', 'CP1250', 'CP1257'
> >>   )), function(enc)
> >>    iconv(enc2utf8(c(
> >>     'Lubomír Kubáček', 'Anders Ågren'
> >>    )), 'UTF-8', enc, toRaw = TRUE)
> >> ) |> sapply(lengths)
> >> # one of the two strings cannot be represented, returning a NULL:
> >> #      latin1 cp1252 latin2 latin7 latin-9 CP1250 CP1257
> >> # [1,]      0      0     15      0       0     15      0
> >> # [2,]     12     12      0     12      12      0     12
> >>
> >> While it may still be possible to give extra parameters to pdf() to use
> >> a font encoding that covers all the relevant characters, it seems
> >> easier to switch to cairo_pdf() for your multi-lingual plots. Place the
> >> following somewhere in the beginning of the vignette:
> >>
> >> <<results=hide,echo=FALSE>>=
> >> my.Swd <- function(name, width, height, ...)
> >>   grDevices::cairo_pdf(
> >>    filename = paste(name, "pdf", sep = "."),
> >>    width = width, height = height
> >>   )
> >> @
> >> \SweaveOpts{grdevice=my.Swd,pdf=FALSE}
> >>
> >> This should define a new plot device function for Sweave, one that
> >> handles more Unicode characters correctly.
> >>
> >>> PS: Thanks for the advice about plain text mode. Hopefully, I have
> >>> correctly abide by that advice in this current email.
> >>
> >> This e-mail arrived in plain text, thank you!
> >>
> >> --
> >> Best regards,
> >> Ivan
> >
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