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

[Uwe Ligges]

On 03.02.2016 14:31, Michael Dewey wrote:
> 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
>


I guess the file is UTF-8 encoded and you read it under Windows as 
latin1 or therelike, so declare an encoding.

Best,
Uwe Ligges



> 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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