Have you set R_ENCODING_LOCALES? That's how you tell R what locale to use
for latin1 and UTF-8 when checking. Details in R-exts.texi.
As it works for me in 'C' on Leopard with R-devel without setting this, I
can't reproduce the problem to check if setting works.
For l10n_info, it is asking the nl_langinfo system. Looks like Darwin
is using unusual charset names: it reports ISO8859-1 and we are
looking for (the more correct) ISO-8859-1: I've 'hot fixed' that.
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Simon Urbanek wrote:
I think I found the cause, but fixing it may be more complicated
(other than a hot fix for this particular case).
What it boils down to is that the code for .check_package_code_syntax
is trying to change the locale in a manner that doesn't work. In
addition to that, the output of l10n_info() is wrong (for some
definition of wrong), which complicates things even further.
To top it all, if run in a UTF-8 locale, everything is just fine -
that's why the package will pass check on "regular" OS X, because
UTF-8 locale is the default since Leopard.
.check_package_code_syntax() sees that the source requires Latin1, so
it is checking whether the locale is utf-8, but it's not (because we
force C) so it uses en_US. This may be the first problem, because
en_US is not necessarily a latin1 locale at all (en_US.ISO8859-1 would
be latin1 on OS X). However, the next problem is that l10n_info() is
returning FALSE even for the (correct) latin1 locale and
consequently(?) the reading fails.
ginaz:~$ echo 'Sys.getlocale(); l10n_info()'|LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1 R --
vanilla --slave
[1] "en_US.ISO8859-1/en_US.ISO8859-1/en_US.ISO8859-1/C/en_US.ISO8859-1/
en_US.ISO8859-1"
$MBCS
[1] FALSE
$`UTF-8`
[1] FALSE
$`Latin-1`
[1] FALSE
en_US.ISO8859-1 *is* a latin-1 locale ... I was looking hard and found
no way how to link (installed) locales to encodings - there is no
official mapping and POSIX allows arbitrary locales (and names) ..
Hence all locale names are merely loose conventions... so I'm not sure
how can R even make such a decision (other than parse the name?).
Anyway - a quick fix would be to force en_US.UTF-8 locale in that
check for Mac OS X, but I think that doesn't fix the underlying
problems ...
Cheers,
Simon
On Feb 14, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
On Feb 14, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Kurt Hornik wrote:
Vincent Goulet writes:
Dear developeRs,
Compilation of the latest version (0.9-5) of my actuar package fails
with r-release MacOS_X ix86 on CRAN; see
http://www.R-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macosx-ix86/actuar-00check.html
All errors come from accented letters in comments in latin-1 encoded
files (except hierarc.R which is in UTF-8, my bad). Encoding is
declared as latin-1 in DESCRIPTION.
The package checks and compiles fine on Windows, Linux and,
ironically, my MacOS X main development machine. I realize using
non-
ASCII characters in source files is not a good idea and I removed
them, but I would appreciate any clue as to what went wrong with the
compilation on CRAN.
I assume that the MacOS X builds are done in a C locale?
Yes - but isn't this very similar to the problem we have been talking
about a while back? The check analyses were reporting an error
although the code was fine (I think it boiled down to text connection
I/O in the check scripts failing mysteriously due to the fact that it
was using the wrong encoding) I'll have to check later today ...
Cheers,
S
FWIW,
sessionInfo()
R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08)
i386-apple-darwin8.10.1
locale:
fr_CA.UTF-8/fr_CA.UTF-8/fr_CA.UTF-8/C/fr_CA.UTF-8/fr_CA.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] stats utils datasets grDevices graphics methods base
other attached packages:
[1] CarbonEL_0.1-4
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.6.2
Thanks in advance!
---
Vincent Goulet, Associate Professor
École d'actuariat
Université Laval, Québec
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca
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