[R-pkg-devel] Fix non-ASCII characters in R packages

[Uwe Ligges]

On 02.12.2019 15:29, peter dalgaard wrote:
> Dunno if it helps, but the NOTE is about "checking data", which, as far as I can decipher the code, means that it is looking at datasets in the data/ directory. So I suspect that looking at *.R files is not going to be the right thing to do.
> 
> -pd
> 
>> On 2 Dec 2019, at 14:57 , Rafael Pereira <rafa.pereira.br using gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am trying to update my R package on CRAN but I am being requested to fix
>> this NOTE:
>>
>> checking data for non-ASCII characters ... NOTE Note: found 58 marked
>> Latin-1 strings

Have we really asked you to fix these?
Which packages is this?

Best,
Uwe Ligges


>
>> I have used to code below to identify my scripts that have strings using
>> non-ASCII characters. The problem is that in most cases these non-ASCII
>> characters are used in the documentation of functions, so I cannot simply
>> convert their encoding using iconv() for example
>>
>> # Find scripts using non-ASCII characters
>>   f <- list.files(pattern = "*.R", recursive = T)
>>   r <- lapply(f, tools::showNonASCIIfile)
>>
>> I've tried (1) reopening and (2) resaving those scripts with UTF-8
>> encoding, (3) setting UTF-8 as the default encoding of the project, but
>> nothing seems to fix this issue. Any suggestions?
>>
>> obs. I've posted this question on SO
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59139923/fix-non-ascii-characters-in-r-packages
>>
>> best,
>>
>> Rafael Pereira
>>
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