On 18/06/2017 5:57 AM, Andrie de Vries wrote:
Hi, Duncan
i have forwarded this thread to Nathan, who promised to look into it.
Any progress on this?
Duncan Murdoch
Andrie
On 17 Jun 2017 17:26, "Duncan Murdoch" <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com
<mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 17/06/2017 9:13 AM, Ben Marwick wrote:
Hi Duncan,
Thanks for your reply. Yes, it does seem to be specific to the CTYPE
setting to Chinese on Windows. If I set it to English using
Sys.setlocale() there is no problem, then back to Chinese and the
authors disappear:
Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL","English")
citation("readr")
Thanks, that makes the problem reproducible. I'll submit it as a
bug report. Maybe someone from Microsoft will fix it.
Duncan Murdoch
#' To cite package ‘readr’ in publications use:
#'
#' Hadley Wickham, Jim Hester and Romain Francois (2017).
readr: Read
#' Rectangular Text Data. R package version 1.1.1.
#' https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr
<https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr>
#'
#' A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
#'
#' @Manual{,
#' title = {readr: Read Rectangular Text Data},
#' author = {Hadley Wickham and Jim Hester and Romain Francois},
#' year = {2017},
#' note = {R package version 1.1.1},
#' url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr
<https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr>},
#' }
Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", "Chinese")
citation("readr")
#'
#' To cite package ‘readr’ in publications use:
#'
#' (2017). readr: Read Rectangular Text Data. R package
version 1.1.1.
#' https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr
<https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr>
#'
#' A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
#'
#' @Manual{,
#' title = {readr: Read Rectangular Text Data},
#' year = {2017},
#' note = {R package version 1.1.1},
#' url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr
<https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr>},
#' }
#'
#' ATTENTION: This citation information has been auto-generated
from the
#' package DESCRIPTION file and may need manual editing, see
#' ‘help("citation")’.
Where do we go from here? I do want to use the Chinese locale
with R on
Windows (and perhaps others do too), so switching the locale
isn't a fix.
Thanks,
Ben
On 17/06/2017 10:36 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 17/06/2017 7:10 AM, Ben Marwick wrote:
Recently I was trying to cite a package where the
authors have ä
and ø in their names. I found that on Windows the
citation() function
did not return the authors' names at all, but on Linux
there was no
problem (sessionInfos at the bottom):
On Windows, no author names are returned:
I'm not seeing this. You have fairly strange localization
settings; see
comments below.
#---------------
> citation("readr")
To cite package ‘readr’ in publications use:
(2017). readr: Read Rectangular Text Data. R package
version 1.1.1.
https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr
<https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr>
A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
@Manual{,
title = {readr: Read Rectangular Text Data},
year = {2017},
note = {R package version 1.1.1},
url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr
<https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr>},
}
ATTENTION: This citation information has been
auto-generated from the
package DESCRIPTION file and may need manual editing, see
‘help("citation")’.
#---------------
On Linux we do see the author names:
#---------------
> citation("readr")
To cite package ‘readr’ in publications use:
Hadley Wickham, Jim Hester and Romain Francois
(2017). readr:
Read Rectangular Text Data. R package version 1.1.1.
https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr
<https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr>
A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
@Manual{,
title = {readr: Read Rectangular Text Data},
author = {Hadley Wickham and Jim Hester and Romain
Francois},
year = {2017},
note = {R package version 1.1.1},
url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr
<https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr>},
}
#---------------
This appears to be an OS-dependent encoding issue. The
citation function
does not take an encoding argument, so it's not possible
to set the
encoding at the point where that function is used. The
citation function
working with the packageDescription function, which does
have an
encoding argument, but the default is not useful for
Windows when there
is an encoding set in the DESCRIPTION of the package (in
this case
UTF-8).
We can set the encoding argument in packageDescription
so it works in
Windows to give the authors as expected, but it is very
inconvenient to
generate citations directly from the output of this
function. So I'd
like to propose a solution this problem by changing one
line in the
packageDescription function, like so, from:
#---------------
if (missing(encoding) && Sys.getlocale("LC_CTYPE") == "C")
#---------------
to:
#---------------
if ((missing(encoding) && Sys.getlocale("LC_CTYPE") ==
"C") |
unname(Sys.info()['sysname']) == "Windows")
#---------------
If I understand correctly, that will force
ASCII//TRANSLIT encoding when
DESCRIPTION files are read by packageDescription() on
Windows machines.
The upside is that Windows users will get the authors in
the package
citation, unlike the current situation. The downside is
that the exotic
symbols in the authors' names are replaced with common
ones that are
similar.
I think getting the citations to easily include the
authors' names is
pretty important, even if their names have exotic
characters, so this is
worth fixing. Is this edit to packageDescription the
best way to solve
this problem of exotic characters preventing the
authors' names from
showing on Windows?
thanks,
Ben
Windows sessionInfo
#---------------
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.0 Patched (2017-05-10 r72670)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
Matrix products: default
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=Chinese (Simplified)_People's Republic of
China.936
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252
I don't know what English_Australia.1252 does that's
different from what
I use (English_Canada.1252), but the Chinese locale setting
could cause
trouble. Could you try setting this (presumably in the
Windows control
panel) to be consistent? You're using a much simpler
setting on Linux.
Duncan Murdoch
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets
methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] readr_1.1.1 compiler_3.4.0 R6_2.2.1 hms_0.3
tools_3.4.0
[6] tibble_1.3.3 yaml_2.1.14 Rcpp_0.12.11
knitr_1.16
rlang_0.1.1
[11] fortunes_1.5-4
#---------------
Linux sessionInfo:
#---------------
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 16.10
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets
methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.3.1 yaml_2.1.14 knitr_1.16
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