I found the problem. It turned out that the coding system of the Rd file (as defined under Emacs) was mistakenly set by me to a wrong value. I had to define it as iso-latin-1, and then retype the accentuated characters under this new system. Everything looks OK, now. Sorry for bothering you.
2010/10/3 Renaud Lancelot <renaud.lance...@gmail.com>: > I see C:/R\R-2.11.1\share\texmf\Rd.sty which is my current R > installation. By the way, there is no error during the compilation > with > > R CMD Rd2dvi --no-clean dja.Rd > > So, it looks that the problem is located elsewhere... > > Thank you for your help. > > All the best, > > Renaud > > 2010/10/3 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>: >> On 03/10/2010 1:14 PM, Renaud Lancelot wrote: >>> >>> Thank you very much. My LaTeX installation is up to date (very >>> recently updated with MIKTeK update facility). >>> I have run R CMD Rd2dvi --no-clean dja.Rd and the result looks OK. I >>> have put the resulting TeX file at >>> http://filex.cirad.fr/get?k=K1cBpKr3UBUmdOJFMlx >>> >>> Do you have another suggestion? >> >> Not really, other than trying a LaTeX expert. When I run your file through >> latex using >> >> R CMD latex Rd2.tex >> >> it compiles fine with no errors (only an "underfull hbox" warning). >> >> One thought: some people install copies of Rd.sty into their local tex >> installation. If that version isn't compatible with the current macros >> generated by R, you could have problems. You should see something like >> >> (F:/R/svn/r-devel/R/share/texmf/tex/latex\Rd.sty >> Package: Rd >> >> in the Rd2.log file. If you see that it finds Rd.sty outside of the current >> R version, delete the old file. >> >> Duncan Murdoch >> >> >>> >>> Renaud >>> >>> 2010/10/3 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>: >>>> >>>> On 03/10/2010 12:23 PM, Renaud Lancelot wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Dear all, >>>>> >>>>> I have a problem with an Rd file containing French accentuated >>>>> characters. I have uploaded the file at >>>>> http://filex.cirad.fr/get?k=cjW7lImMaNC6Ci2vX0H >>>>> >>>>> I have declared >>>>> Encoding: latin1 >>>>> in the package DESCRIPTION file >>>>> >>>>> and I have added >>>>> \encoding{latin1} >>>>> in the header of the Rd file. >>>>> >>>>> When I compile the package manual, I have LaTeX errors: >>>>> >>>>> ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:ÃF not set up for use with >>>>> LaTeX. >>>>> >>>>> See the inputenc package documentation for explanation. >>>>> Type H <return> for immediate help. >>>>> ... >>>>> >>>>> l.579 ...ain. Aspects méthodologiques.} Rev. à F >>>>> augère, O., Dockès, >>>>> A.-C... >>>> >>>> R converts everything to UTF-8 and declares it that way for LaTeX. It >>>> looks >>>> as though your LaTeX installation isn't prepared to handle that, or >>>> something has gone wrong in the conversion on your system. The letter >>>> following "Rev. " above is a capital E with an acute accent, which is >>>> encoded as C3 89 in UTF-8. Interpreted as Latin1, that looks like "Ã", >>>> because the 89 is unprintable, but it shouldn't come out as "ÃF". >>>> >>>> I'd suggest updating your LaTeX inputenc package. If that doesn't work, >>>> you >>>> can see if the problem is in the conversion, by running >>>> >>>> R CMD Rd2dvi --no-clean dja.Rd >>>> >>>> and look in the Rd2.tex file that was produced. >>>> >>>> Duncan Murdoch >>>> >>>>> Your command was ignored. >>>>> Type I <command> <return> to replace it with another command, >>>>> or <return> to continue without it. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:ÃF not set up for use with >>>>> LaTeX. >>>>> >>>>> See the inputenc package documentation for explanation. >>>>> Type H <return> for immediate help. >>>>> ... >>>>> >>>>> l.581 à F >>>>> augère, O., Tillard, E., Faugère, B., 1992. \emph{Prophylaxie >>>>> ch... >>>>> >>>>> Your command was ignored. >>>>> Type I <command> <return> to replace it with another command, >>>>> or <return> to continue without it. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:Ã\end not set up for use with >>>>> LaTeX. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> See the inputenc package documentation for explanation. >>>>> Type H <return> for immediate help. >>>>> ... >>>>> >>>>> l.587 \end >>>>> {References} >>>>> Your command was ignored. >>>>> Type I <command> <return> to replace it with another command, >>>>> or <return> to continue without it. >>>>> >>>>> *********** >>>>> I can easily find the offending lines using >>>>> showNonASCII(readLines(file)). However, I don't know what to do to >>>>> solve the problem. The strange thing (to me!) is that the pdf is >>>>> actually built with appropriate accentuated characters, at least when >>>>> I look at it with my pdf viewer (Acrobat reader). >>>>> >>>>> My config is: >>>>> >>>>>> sessionInfo() >>>>> >>>>> R version 2.11.1 Patched (2010-09-30 r53117) >>>>> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32 (32-bit) >>>>> >>>>> locale: >>>>> [1] LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252 LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252 >>>>> [3] LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C >>>>> [5] LC_TIME=French_France.1252 >>>>> >>>>> attached base packages: >>>>> [1] tools stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods >>>>> [8] base >>>>> >>>>> other attached packages: >>>>> [1] fortunes_1.4-0 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > > -- > Renaud Lancelot > EDEN Project, coordinator > http://www.eden-fp6project.net/ > > UMR CIRAD-INRA "Contrôle des maladies animales exotiques et émergentes" > Joint research unit "Control of emerging and exotic animal diseases" > > CIRAD, Campus International de Baillarguet TA A-DIR / B > F34398 Montpellier > http://umr-cmaee.cirad.fr/ > > Tel. +33 4 67 59 37 17 - Fax +33 4 67 59 37 95 > Secr. +33 4 67 59 37 37 - Cell. +33 6 77 52 08 69 > -- Renaud Lancelot EDEN Project, coordinator http://www.eden-fp6project.net/ UMR CIRAD-INRA "Contrôle des maladies animales exotiques et émergentes" Joint research unit "Control of emerging and exotic animal diseases" CIRAD, Campus International de Baillarguet TA A-DIR / B F34398 Montpellier http://umr-cmaee.cirad.fr/ Tel. +33 4 67 59 37 17 - Fax +33 4 67 59 37 95 Secr. +33 4 67 59 37 37 - Cell. +33 6 77 52 08 69 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel