Problem with Demo and ReadMe - Readme

6 Apr 2012

Hi,
I too am having problems implementing ReadMe. I am not an expert on  
such matters so I do not deny the possibility of user error.

I installed the most recent version of ReadMe. I am also running  
Python 3. When I try to execute the demo, I get this:

...
  library(ReadMe) Loading required package: VA
...
  demo(clinton) 

         demo(clinton)
         ---- ~~~~~~~

Type  <Return>   to start :

...
  oldwd <- getwd() 
...
  setwd(system.file("demofiles/clintonposts",
package="ReadMe")) 
...
  undergrad.results <- undergrad(sep = ',')
[1] "python  
C:/Users/Jesse/Documents/R/win-library/2.12/ReadMe/makerfile  
--separator \",\" --control-file control.txt --table-file  
tablefile.txt --threshold 0.01"
Error in undergrad(sep = ",") : Python module failed. Aborting undergrad.

When I try to execute my own analysis, I get this:

...
  setwd("C:/Users/Jesse/Presidents and Party
Rhetoric/Data/1933 Roosevelt")
 undergrad.results <- undergrad(control="1933RooseveltControl.txt",  
 stem=F, strip.tags=F, ignore.case=T, threshold=0.01, python3=T,  
 pyexe="C:/Python32/Python", sep=',') [1]
"C:/Python32/Python  
C:/Users/Jesse/Documents/R/win-library/2.12/ReadMe/makerfile3-0.py  
--no-stem --tags --separator \",\" --control-file  
1933RooseveltControl.txt --table-file tablefile.txt --threshold 0.01"
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File  
"C:/Users/Jesse/Documents/R/win-library/2.12/ReadMe/makerfile3-0.py",  
line 487, in <module>
     main()
   File  
"C:/Users/Jesse/Documents/R/win-library/2.12/ReadMe/makerfile3-0.py",  
line 483, in main
     outputdata(controldata,stripTags, stem, ignoreCase, threshold,  
tablefile,fullfreq,printit)
   File  
"C:/Users/Jesse/Documents/R/win-library/2.12/ReadMe/makerfile3-0.py",  
line 423, in outputdata
     allwords = getallwords(controldata, stripTags, stem, ignoreCase,  
threshold)
   File  
"C:/Users/Jesse/Documents/R/win-library/2.12/ReadMe/makerfile3-0.py",  
line 410, in getallwords
     text = getText(filename)
   File  
"C:/Users/Jesse/Documents/R/win-library/2.12/ReadMe/makerfile3-0.py",  
line 374, in getText
     text = ' '.join(f.readlines())
   File "C:\Python32\lib\codecs.py", line 300, in decode
     (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position  
155-156: invalid continuation byte
Error in undergrad(control = "1933RooseveltControl.txt", stem = F,  
strip.tags = F,  :
   Python module failed. Aborting undergrad.
In addition: Warning message:
running command 'C:/Python32/Python  
C:/Users/Jesse/Documents/R/win-library/2.12/ReadMe/makerfile3-0.py  
--no-stem --tags --separator "," --control-file  
1933RooseveltControl.txt --table-file tablefile.txt --threshold 0.01'  
had status 1

Jesse H. Rhodes
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
jrhodes(a)polsci.umass.edu
413-545-6185