On Sat, 30 Jul 2011, baptiste auguie wrote:
Dear list,
I'd like to get rid off a couple of warnings that have appeared in
checking my package on CRAN (I did not find them on my local machine
before submission). What puzzles me is that different platforms return
different warnings, only one of which I recognise as my obvious
mistake. The check results are at
http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_planar.html
r-devel-linux-x86_64-gcc-fedora
complains about unused variable in c++ code; this I understand as my
mistake, I'll fix it.
r-patched-windows-ix86+x86_64
is happy, no warning
r-release-macosx-ix86
checking examples ... WARNING
checking a package with encoding 'UTF-8' in an ASCII locale
This one really puzzles me: I have a Encoding: UTF-8 directive in
DESCRIPTION, precisely because I thought it would take care of
encoding issues such as with my surname.
Your 'thought' was unfounded: please re-read the relevant sections of
the R manuals.
What does this mean, and what should I do about it?
It means that your package cannot be checked correctly in that locale.
You can avoid it by following the recommendations to use only ASCII,
as you did in this message (or at least, it was ASCII by the time it
reached me).
Similarly,
r-oldrel-macosx-ix86
checking whether package 'planar' can be installed ... WARNING
Found the following significant warnings:
Warning: 'DESCRIPTION' file has 'Encoding' field and re-encoding is not possible
has me perplexed.
Same: non-ASCII UTF-8 strings cannot be represented in the C (aka
ASCII) locale.
Now, I think it is a mistake to be checking in the C locale on Mac OS
X as no end user will deliberately be using it, but that is the
default for batch use on many OSes. *But* the same encoding issues
for European names will occur in, say, the Japanese Windows locale.
Best regards,
baptiste
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