Re: [Rd] Encoding errors in Rd files

2012-07-25 Thread steven mosher
Thanks Duncan I was able to find the offending characters in the Rd files. I'll try latin1 for the data.frame (UTF-8 was obviously not the right answer for that.) One thing I was very happy for was that the package just works, not too shabby since it was orginally built under 1.9. Thanks for yo

Re: [Rd] Encoding errors in Rd files

2012-07-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 12-07-25 3:24 AM, steven mosher wrote: Thank Dr. Ripley. When I read the instructions " If the DESCRIPTION file is not entirely in ASCII it should contain an ‘ Encoding’ field specifying an encoding. This is used as the encoding of the DESCRIPTION file itself and of the R and NAMESPACE file

Re: [Rd] Encoding errors in Rd files

2012-07-25 Thread steven mosher
Thank Dr. Ripley. When I read the instructions " If the DESCRIPTION file is not entirely in ASCII it should contain an ‘ Encoding’ field specifying an encoding. This is used as the encoding of the DESCRIPTION file itself and of the R and NAMESPACE files, and as the default encoding of .Rd files.

Re: [Rd] Encoding errors in Rd files

2012-07-24 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 24/07/2012 21:08, steven mosher wrote: Well, I'm working on project trying to bring back an old package last published on R 1.9 back to life. I'm almost there but I am getting killed by an encoding error in the Rd files After reading the manual, I decided to try UTF-8. Mostly because I could

[Rd] Encoding errors in Rd files

2012-07-24 Thread steven mosher
Well, I'm working on project trying to bring back an old package last published on R 1.9 back to life. I'm almost there but I am getting killed by an encoding error in the Rd files After reading the manual, I decided to try UTF-8. Mostly because I could spell it. ha. That got me a bit closer but