Hi, Duncan i have forwarded this thread to Nathan, who promised to look into it.
Andrie On 17 Jun 2017 17:26, "Duncan Murdoch" <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17/06/2017 9:13 AM, Ben Marwick wrote: > >> Hi Duncan, >> >> Thanks for your reply. Yes, it does seem to be specific to the CTYPE >> setting to Chinese on Windows. If I set it to English using >> Sys.setlocale() there is no problem, then back to Chinese and the >> authors disappear: >> >> Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL","English") >> citation("readr") >> > > Thanks, that makes the problem reproducible. I'll submit it as a bug > report. Maybe someone from Microsoft will fix it. > > Duncan Murdoch > > >> #' To cite package ‘readr’ in publications use: >> #' >> #' Hadley Wickham, Jim Hester and Romain Francois (2017). readr: Read >> #' Rectangular Text Data. R package version 1.1.1. >> #' https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr >> #' >> #' A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is >> #' >> #' @Manual{, >> #' title = {readr: Read Rectangular Text Data}, >> #' author = {Hadley Wickham and Jim Hester and Romain Francois}, >> #' year = {2017}, >> #' note = {R package version 1.1.1}, >> #' url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr}, >> #' } >> >> >> Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", "Chinese") >> citation("readr") >> >> #' >> #' To cite package ‘readr’ in publications use: >> #' >> #' (2017). readr: Read Rectangular Text Data. R package version 1.1.1. >> #' https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr >> #' >> #' A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is >> #' >> #' @Manual{, >> #' title = {readr: Read Rectangular Text Data}, >> #' year = {2017}, >> #' note = {R package version 1.1.1}, >> #' url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr}, >> #' } >> #' >> #' ATTENTION: This citation information has been auto-generated from the >> #' package DESCRIPTION file and may need manual editing, see >> #' ‘help("citation")’. >> >> Where do we go from here? I do want to use the Chinese locale with R on >> Windows (and perhaps others do too), so switching the locale isn't a fix. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Ben >> >> On 17/06/2017 10:36 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> >>> On 17/06/2017 7:10 AM, Ben Marwick wrote: >>> >>>> Recently I was trying to cite a package where the authors have ä >>>> and ø in their names. I found that on Windows the citation() function >>>> did not return the authors' names at all, but on Linux there was no >>>> problem (sessionInfos at the bottom): >>>> >>>> On Windows, no author names are returned: >>>> >>> >>> I'm not seeing this. You have fairly strange localization settings; see >>> comments below. >>> >>> >>>> #--------------- >>>> >>>> > citation("readr") >>>> >>>> To cite package ‘readr’ in publications use: >>>> >>>> (2017). readr: Read Rectangular Text Data. R package version 1.1.1. >>>> https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr >>>> >>>> A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is >>>> >>>> @Manual{, >>>> title = {readr: Read Rectangular Text Data}, >>>> year = {2017}, >>>> note = {R package version 1.1.1}, >>>> url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr}, >>>> } >>>> >>>> ATTENTION: This citation information has been auto-generated from the >>>> package DESCRIPTION file and may need manual editing, see >>>> ‘help("citation")’. >>>> #--------------- >>>> >>>> On Linux we do see the author names: >>>> >>>> #--------------- >>>> > citation("readr") >>>> >>>> To cite package ‘readr’ in publications use: >>>> >>>> Hadley Wickham, Jim Hester and Romain Francois (2017). readr: >>>> Read Rectangular Text Data. R package version 1.1.1. >>>> https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr >>>> >>>> A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is >>>> >>>> @Manual{, >>>> title = {readr: Read Rectangular Text Data}, >>>> author = {Hadley Wickham and Jim Hester and Romain Francois}, >>>> year = {2017}, >>>> note = {R package version 1.1.1}, >>>> url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=readr}, >>>> } >>>> #--------------- >>>> >>>> This appears to be an OS-dependent encoding issue. The citation function >>>> does not take an encoding argument, so it's not possible to set the >>>> encoding at the point where that function is used. The citation function >>>> working with the packageDescription function, which does have an >>>> encoding argument, but the default is not useful for Windows when there >>>> is an encoding set in the DESCRIPTION of the package (in this case >>>> UTF-8). >>>> >>>> We can set the encoding argument in packageDescription so it works in >>>> Windows to give the authors as expected, but it is very inconvenient to >>>> generate citations directly from the output of this function. So I'd >>>> like to propose a solution this problem by changing one line in the >>>> packageDescription function, like so, from: >>>> >>>> #--------------- >>>> if (missing(encoding) && Sys.getlocale("LC_CTYPE") == "C") >>>> #--------------- >>>> >>>> to: >>>> >>>> #--------------- >>>> if ((missing(encoding) && Sys.getlocale("LC_CTYPE") == "C") | >>>> unname(Sys.info()['sysname']) == "Windows") >>>> #--------------- >>>> >>>> If I understand correctly, that will force ASCII//TRANSLIT encoding when >>>> DESCRIPTION files are read by packageDescription() on Windows machines. >>>> The upside is that Windows users will get the authors in the package >>>> citation, unlike the current situation. The downside is that the exotic >>>> symbols in the authors' names are replaced with common ones that are >>>> similar. >>>> >>>> I think getting the citations to easily include the authors' names is >>>> pretty important, even if their names have exotic characters, so this is >>>> worth fixing. Is this edit to packageDescription the best way to solve >>>> this problem of exotic characters preventing the authors' names from >>>> showing on Windows? >>>> >>>> thanks, >>>> >>>> Ben >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Windows sessionInfo >>>> >>>> #--------------- >>>> > sessionInfo() >>>> R version 3.4.0 Patched (2017-05-10 r72670) >>>> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) >>>> Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1 >>>> >>>> Matrix products: default >>>> >>>> locale: >>>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252 >>>> [2] LC_CTYPE=Chinese (Simplified)_People's Republic of China.936 >>>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252 >>>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C >>>> [5] LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252 >>>> >>> >>> I don't know what English_Australia.1252 does that's different from what >>> I use (English_Canada.1252), but the Chinese locale setting could cause >>> trouble. Could you try setting this (presumably in the Windows control >>> panel) to be consistent? You're using a much simpler setting on Linux. >>> >>> Duncan Murdoch >>> >>> >>>> attached base packages: >>>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >>>> >>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >>>> [1] readr_1.1.1 compiler_3.4.0 R6_2.2.1 hms_0.3 >>>> tools_3.4.0 >>>> [6] tibble_1.3.3 yaml_2.1.14 Rcpp_0.12.11 knitr_1.16 >>>> rlang_0.1.1 >>>> [11] fortunes_1.5-4 >>>> #--------------- >>>> >>>> Linux sessionInfo: >>>> >>>> #--------------- >>>> > sessionInfo() >>>> R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21) >>>> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) >>>> Running under: Ubuntu 16.10 >>>> >>>> locale: >>>> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C >>>> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 >>>> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 >>>> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C >>>> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C >>>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C >>>> >>>> attached base packages: >>>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >>>> >>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >>>> [1] tools_3.3.1 yaml_2.1.14 knitr_1.16 >>>> #--------------- >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >>>> >>>> >>> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel