For the record (and as privately discussed with Brian Ripley), happens with all recent versions of R including R-devel from today:
Consider a simple a.Rd file containing the lines ================== \name{a} \title{a} \value{\code{a} \code{\link[a]{a}} \pkg{a} \item{a}{a} } ================== with these lines, I get, e.g.: ================== R CMD Rdconv --type="txt" a.Rd a package:unknown R Documentation a Value: 'a' 'a' 'a' Can't find Unicode property definition "k" at d:/Rcompile/recent/R/share/perl/R/Rdconv.pm line 2173, <$rdfile> line 5. ================== Version: platform = i386-pc-mingw32 arch = i386 os = mingw32 system = i386, mingw32 status = Under development (unstable) major = 2 minor = 9.0 year = 2009 month = 03 day = 03 svn rev = 48046 language = R version.string = R version 2.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-03-03 r48046) Windows Server 2008 x64 (build 6001) Service Pack 1 Locale: LC_COLLATE=C;LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=C Search Path: .GlobalEnv, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, package:methods, Autoloads, package:base Uwe Ligges ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel