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

[Rafael Pereira]

Thank you for the clarification,  Uwe Ligges.

best,

Rafael Pereira

On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 4:36 PM Uwe Ligges <ligges using statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
wrote:

> OK, but this note did not lead to a rejection (and the mail we sent did
> not even include the Note you apparently cited from the check.log)
>
> The actual issues are:
>
>
>    Found the following (possibly) invalid URLs:
>      URL: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/geobr/index.html
>        From: README.md
>              NEWS.md
>        Status: 200
>        Message: OK
>        CRAN URL not in canonical form
>
>      URL:
> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/geobr/vignettes/intro_to_geobr.html
>        From: README.md
>        Status: 200
>        Message: OK
>        CRAN URL not in canonical form
>
>      The canonical URL of the CRAN page for a package is
>        https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=pkgname
>
>
> Flavor: r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-windows-ix86+x86_64
> Check: for hidden files and directories, Result: NOTE
>    Found the following hidden files and directories:
>      .travis.yml
>    These were most likely included in error. See section 'Package
>    structure' in the 'Writing R Extensions' manual.
>
>
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
>
> On 02.12.2019 18:46, Rafael Pereira wrote:
> > 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:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> 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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> >>>>
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