>From "Writing R Extensions": "Only ASCII characters (and the control characters tab, formfeed, LF and CR) should be used in code files."
So I am afraid you cannot use μm. Gabor On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 3:36 PM Iñaki Ucar <iu...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > We found a (to our eyes) strange behaviour that might be a bug. First > a little bit of context. The 'units' package allows us to set the unit > using both SE or NSE. E.g., these both work in the same way: > > units::set_units(1:10, "μm") > #> Units: [μm] > #> [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > > units::set_units(1:10, μm) > #> Units: [μm] > #> [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > > That's micrometers, and works fine if the session charset is UTF-8. > Now the funny part comes with Windows. The first version, with quotes, > works fine, but the second one fails. This is easy to demonstrate from > Linux: > > LC_CTYPE=en_US.iso88591 Rscript -e 'units::set_units(1:10, "μm")' > #> Units: [μm] > #> [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > > LC_CTYPE=en_US.iso88591 Rscript -e 'units::set_units(1:10, μm)' > #> Error: unexpected input in "units::set_units(1:10, μ" > #> Execution halted > > However, if you use the first version, with quotes, in an example, and > the package is checked on Windows, it fails too (see > https://ci.appveyor.com/project/edzer/units/builds/22440023#L747). The > package declares UTF-8 encoding, so none of these errors should, in > principle, happen. Am I wrong? > > Thanks in advance, regards, > Iñaki > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
