Thank you -- since I don't understand the relevant discussion in Writing R Extensions, I have now removed Encoding: UTF-8 from the DESCRIPTION file; I also made sure that my surname and all text was in plain ASCII.
Best regards, baptiste On 30 July 2011 17:29, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > 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 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
