Re: [R] Error: Line starting ' ...' is malformed!

2013-07-30 Thread Ross Boylan
On Monday, July 29, 2013 07:47:34 AM MacQueen, Don wrote: > A recent version of the R extension manual says, > > "For maximal portability, the ‘DESCRIPTION’ file should be written > entirely in ASCII — if this is not possible it must contain an ‘Encoding’ > field (see below)." > > It also says, r

Re: [R] Error: Line starting ' ...' is malformed!

2013-07-29 Thread MacQueen, Don
A recent version of the R extension manual says, "For maximal portability, the ‘DESCRIPTION’ file should be written entirely in ASCII — if this is not possible it must contain an ‘Encoding’ field (see below)." It also says, regarding the DESCRIPTION file, "Fields start with an ASCII name immedia

[R] Error: Line starting ' ...' is malformed!

2013-07-26 Thread Ross Boylan
A DESCRIPTION file begins with 0xFFFE and $ file DESCRIPTION DESCRIPTION: Little-endian UTF-16 Unicode text, with CRLF, CR line terminators I think it was created on Windows. In R (2,15,1 on Debian GNU/Linux), using roxygen2, I get > roxygenize("../GitHub/mice") Error: Line starting '��P ...' is