[R-pkg-devel] Note about "marked UTF-8 strings" when checking with R-devel

[Dominic Comtois]

Excellent!

Thanks for the quick response and best wishes,

Dominic


On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 15:17, Uwe Ligges <ligges using statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
wrote:

>
>
> On 27.01.2020 17:22, Dominic Comtois wrote:
> > Checking my summarytools package before submitting an updated version to
> > CRAN, I get this note when using rhub::check_with_rdevel() :
> >
> >   checking contents of ‘data’ directory (1.4s)
> >   checking data for non-ASCII characters (1.6s)
> >       *Note: found 78 marked UTF-8 strings*
>
> Fine for CRAN.
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
> > The package has been on CRAN for years now, and it's the first time I get
> > this note. Checking with R 3.6.2, I still get:
> >
> >    checking data for non-ASCII characters ... OK
> >
> > The package contains 4 sample data frames, two of which are in French
> with
> > accentuated characters on a couple of variables. I could easily "asciify"
> > them (removing accents), but I wonder if there is a way around it, and if
> > the note is an absolute no-go for CRAN. Thoughts?
> >
> > The source code for my package can be found on GitHub:
> > github.com/dcomtois/summarytools.
> >
> > And here is one of the culprits:
> >
> >> unique(tabagisme$maladie)
> >   [1] NA                     "Neurologique"         "Ouïe"
> > "Musculo-squelettique"
> >   [5] "Vue"                  "Cardiaque"            "Cancer"
> > "Hypertension"
> >   [9] "Diabète"              "Autre"                "Pulmonaire"
> > "Hypotension"
> > [13] "Cholestérol"          "Système digestif"
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
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