accented charatchers in a package manual
On 14/11/2012 9:22 AM, Denis Talbot wrote:
Dear list, I am writing an R package manual and there is still a warning when I run "R CMD check" about "NON-ASCII contents without declared encoding". I do get the warning comes from an accent in the name of one of the author (Genevi?ve), but I can't find what I am supposed to do about it. I know there is a section about encoding in the "Writing R extension" manual, but I couldn't understand what I should do from reading it. Any help is welcomed.
You need to declare what encoding you are using. Put a line in your DESCRIPTION file like Encoding: utf-8 If you don't know what encoding you are using, you can probably find out by reading the docs for your text editor, or just guess: If you are on Windows it is likely latin1, on Linux it is likely utf-8. If you guess wrong you'll get errors or ugly text when R produces the manual. Duncan Murdoch