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

[Duncan Murdoch]

Removing (or moving to inst) the unrecognized file should be sufficient.

Duncan Murdoch

On 19/02/2024 7:27 a.m., Package Maintainer wrote:
> 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 One of the notes is simply stating that the package has been archived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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