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.
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 > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
