On 27/02/2010 2:38 AM, Felix Schönbrodt wrote:
Thanks for your help - that was the solution (easy enough to remove these two
characters - they've been in only comments anyway).
Fortunately, the DECRIPTION file accepts umlauts, as in my second name. The
problem was only in the source file.
I've changed R-devel so that it now gives a warning instead of an error
in such cases. The warning reports the line numbers of the bad
characters, and the installer converts them to <xx>-style hex codes. If
you've used them in variable names this will likely lead to a syntax
error; in string literals it will look ugly but should be accepted. In
comments it will look ugly, but comments aren't normally saved, so they
won't really matter there.
Duncan Murdoch
Felix
Am 26.02.2010 um 18:37 schrieb Duncan Murdoch:
On 26/02/2010 11:05 AM, Felix Schönbrodt wrote:
Hi Duncan,
I now declared the endcoding in the DESCRIPTION to UTF-8 (and all files are encoded in
that way, too). As my last name is "Schönbrodt", I'd be happy to see it that
way in the package ;-)
However, it still doesn't build on Windows (but works on Mac and Linux).
Unfortunately I cannot build the Windows packages myself (I work on a Mac), but the win-builder by Uwe Ligges still shows the same error ...
If declaring the encoding in DESCRIPTION doesn't solve the problem, I'd be
happy to take a look at the package.
That's a great offer! I'd be very happy if you could take a look.
You can find the source at http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/tripler/, a
tar.gz is attached as well.
I got the same error as you. It looks as though iconv has trouble with the way some
characters are encoded in your file. For example, on line 893, you have a u-umlaut
encoded as EF BF BD. According the the UTF-8 tables at
http://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?start=65280, that encodes a question
mark in a diamond, "REPLACEMENT CHARACTER". There's no corresponding character
in the standard Windows latin1 encoding, so conversion fails. Firefox can display the
funny question mark, but it doesn't display the u-umlaut as you intended, so I think this
is an error in your file.
A way to find all such errors is as follows: read the file as utf-8, then use
the iconv() function in R to convert it to latin1. When I do that, I get NA on
lines 893 and 953, which are displayed to me as
[1] "\t# im latenten Fall: die Error variance erst am Ende berechnen (d.h., alle
error componenten �ber alle Gruppen mitteln, die unter NUll auf Null setzen, dann
addieren)"
[2] "\t\t# TODO: �berpr�fen!"
We might be able to make the error message in the package installer more informative (e.g. giving the line number that failed). I'll look into that.
Duncan Murdoch
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