Dear Brian, > -----Original Message----- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 7:45 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] Warning under R 2.6.0: Rd files with > unknown encoding > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, John Fox wrote: > > > Dear R-devel list members, > > > > Under the development version of R (2.6.0), I notice that my sem > > package produces the following warning: > > > > checking Rd files ... WARNING > > Rd files with unknown encoding: > > residuals.Rd > > > > I wonder what the warning means. As far as I can see, > residuals.Rd is > > similar to the other .Rd files in the package. > > > > At least for the time being, I won't reproduce residuals.Rd here in > > the interest of brevity. > > You have in the \details of that file: > > (s_{ij} - c_{ij})/[(c_{ii}c_{jj} - c_{ij}²)/N]^{1/2}} > > and that superscript 2 (which will probably come out in your > mailer but not for all readers) is not ASCII. 'Writing R > Extensions' tells you that for files that are not entirely > ASCII you need to declare the encoding: > I presume you want \encoding{latin1}.
Thanks for catching that. I wonder how it happened, since I believe that I produced the file with a plain-text editor, probably Tinn-R. > > You might also want to think about the N^{*} in the latex > version and the N in the not-so-plain text version. Yes, I saw the missing asterisk (and the not-so-plain text) when I compared the PDF and chtml versions of the help page in my attempt to locate the error. Thanks again, John > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel