The subject line is untrue.
We recommend in 'Writing R Extensions' that you encode such characters
as \uxxxx sequences, in this case "\u00b0". However, this is more
likely to be a locale problem on the check server, as pgirmess checks
out on my Mac. In fact, the top of the log is
# using R version 2.11.0 beta (2010-04-12 r51689)
# using session charset: ASCII
# checking for file 'pgirmess/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
# this is package 'pgirmess' version '1.4.4'
# package encoding: latin1
and you cannot reencode latin1 to ASCII ....
I don't know why you would choose to use something that makes your
package fail on many Japanese or Greek or Russian systems, and of
course in C locales. Plotmath is portable, and these days "\u00b0" is
also pretty portable.
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Patrick Giraudoux wrote:
> I am developping a package (pgirmess) that since long does not go through
> CRAN MacOSX checks, just because I have this command in one of the
examples.
>
> text(mydata[,3],mydata[,4],paste(round(dirs,0),"?"),cex=0.7)
>
> It makes:
>
> <ERROR: re-encoding failure from encoding 'latin1'>
> text(mydata[,3],mydata[,4],paste(round(dirs,0),"+
> +
> +
> + cleanEx()
> + nameEx("distNode")
> Error: unexpected symbol in:
> "cleanEx()
> nameEx("distNode"
> Execution halted
>
> The description file (following some earlier recommandation) includes:
> Encoding: latin1
>
> Is there any way to make "?" accepted by MacOSX checks ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patrick
>
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