[R-pkg-devel] Package fails to build on Windows only, builds on GNU/Linux (parse issue)

[Michael Dewey]

Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote :

> On 02/02/2016 2:23 PM, Irucka Embry wrote:
> > https://gitlab.com/iembry/install.load/raw/master/R/install_load.R
> is
> > the link to raw R code for my package. I have been successful at
> > building the package on GNU/Linux, but building on Windows fails. I have
> > used R 3.2.3 in both cases.
> >
> > On Windows, using readLines, this is the result of the Line 1:
> >
> > [1] "#' Check, Install and Load CRAN & USGS GRAN Packages"
> >

When I view that line via my webmail and using Chrome browser on Windows I see a string which seems to start:

lower case i possibly with an umlaut
closing guillemet
inverted question mark
hash symbol

whereas the GNU/Linux example just starts hash symbol

Hope that helps someone

> >
> > On GNU/Linux, using readLines, this is the result of Line 1:
> >
> > [1] "#' Check, Install and Load CRAN & USGS GRAN Packages"
> >
> >
> > Can someone offer suggestions on how to fix this character issue for
> > Windows package development?
> 
> I can't see any difference there.  Is that the point, or do you see a 
> difference?
> 
> What is the exact error message you get when parsing?
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> >
> > I have created the R code with the Kate text editor. I have not had this
> > issue in the past with any of my R packages using the Kate text editor.
> >
> > I have a few packages that have the same issue.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Irucka Embry
> >
> >
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