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

[Irucka Embry]

Hi everyone, thank you for the responses.

I did some more searching after I had posted my question. It was a BOM
(Byte Order Mark) issue. I removed the BOM from all of my files and I
have been successful at submitting the packages to CRAN.

Thank you again.

Irucka


<-----Original Message-----> 
>From: Uwe Ligges [ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de]
>Sent: 2/3/2016 7:38:05 AM
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>Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package fails to build on Windows only,
builds on GNU/Linux (parse issue)
>
>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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