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
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