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

[Rafael Pereira]

Thanks for the heads up, Ivan. In any case, I’ll change the encoding of the database. 

Uwe, I’m faxing this issue in the geobr package 

Rafael H.M. Pereira


> On 2 Dec 2019, at 13:39, Uwe Ligges <ligges using statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
> 
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>> 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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