[R-pkg-devel] CRAN "unable to re-encode" .R file warning

[John Mount]

Brodie Gaslam pointed out that tools::showNonASCIIfile() does the job very nicely.

> On Mar 6, 2019, at 11:14 AM, John Mount <jmount using win-vector.com> wrote:
> 
> I am getting this warning on the `rquery` package: https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_rquery.html <https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_rquery.html>
> 
> >     Found the following significant warnings:
> >     Warning: unable to re-encode 'db_info.R' lines 93, 217
> 
> Looking into the code I see it is because I had weird formatted quote characters in a comment ( https://github.com/WinVector/rquery/blob/ce6ad3733876d9d731933b8d85850adc10304564/R/db_info.R#L93 <https://github.com/WinVector/rquery/blob/ce6ad3733876d9d731933b8d85850adc10304564/R/db_info.R#L93> ).
> 
> So I went and excised them.  Is there any Unix tool (or even R tool) that will tell me which other source files have this kind of problem?  Some sort of "isascii" function?  I'd like to fix any others while I am at it.
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