Please do as we ask in both the FAQ and posting guide and check the current working copy of R, which does this differently.
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In building R 2.6.2 from source for Mac OS X 2.5.1 (with > i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1), 'make check' fails. The failure is in > reg-plot.R, and occurs because Mac OS X's 'tr' command (invoked by Rdiff > to strip carriage returns) regards the dagger sign in reg-plot.ps as an > illegal byte sequence. Known for certain locales: we do ask you to report yours (part of the 'at a minimum' information requested in the posting guide). > I'm surprised that this doesn't seem to have been reported before, but > it was already present at least in R 2.6.1 It has been, and fixed before! From the svn logs r44231 | ripley | 2008-01-29 12:45:00 +0000 (Tue, 29 Jan 2008) | 1 line MacOS tr does not cope with Latin-1 chars in a UTF-8 locale > Incidentally, couldn't the handling of line endings now be left to > svn:eol-style? Have you read the code concerned? It says ## some packages ship .Rout.save with CRLF endings and we have no control over what line-endings third-party packages ship with. -- 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
