From ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de  Sat Feb  9 19:54:13 2013
From: ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 19:54:13 +0100
Subject: [Rd] trouble with accentuated characters in \title tag in Rd
 file
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Message-ID: <51169B55.5080205@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>

See Writing R Extensions:

"Since R version 2.12.0 markup has been supported in the text, but use 
of characters other than English text and punctuation (e.g., ?<?) may 
limit portability."

So the answer is: Don't do that.

Best,
Uwe Ligges



On 09.02.2013 19:27, LaurentRdevel wrote:
> Dear R-devel-list,
>
>    Since I had no answer on the R-help-list
> (http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general/284539) I try to
> present my trouble on the R-devel-list. I am sure in the past (one year
> ago) to succeed in putting accentuated characters in the \title tag in a
> .Rd file. Recently, creating a package, I have NA in the title function
> instead of the text containing the accentuated character.
>
> Could you please tell me what I missed in the understanding of package
> documentation creation ? Except the title, all works fine.
>
> Best regards
> Laurent
>
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[Rd] trouble with accentuated characters in \title tag in Rd file
Uwe Ligges