[R-pkg-devel] Warning... unable to translate 'Ekstr<f8>m' to a wide string; Error... input string 1 is invalid

[Tomas Kalibera]

On 7/19/22 08:37, Spencer Graves wrote:
> Hello:
>
>
>       What's the recommended fix for "Warning in gsub(gsLi$pattern, 
> gsLi$replacement, xo) : unable to translate 'Ekstr<f8>m' to a wide 
> string; Error in gsub(gsLi$pattern, gsLi$replacement, xo) : input 
> string 1 is invalid"?
>
>
>       This is in:
>
>
> https://github.com/sbgraves237/Ecfun/blob/master/man/subNonStandardCharacters.Rd 
>
>
>
>       R-devel is now rejecting some non-ASCII characters that it 
> previously accepted;  see below.

Please see 
https://blog.r-project.org/2022/06/27/why-to-avoid-%5Cx-in-regular-expressions

Looking at the code I guess you should change the strings in icx to use 
\u escapes instead of \x. The use of \x as it is there was probably 
correct when the code was ran in Latin-1 encoding, but not in other 
encodings. Using \u would make it portable. Feel free to ask more if my 
guess is wrong and reading the blog post doesn't help.

Best
Tomas



>
>
>       Thanks,
>       Spencer Graves
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: CRAN package Ecfun and its reverse dependencies
> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 06:34:24 +0100
> From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley using stats.ox.ac.uk>
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> To: veronica.vinciotti using brunel.ac.uk, 
> spencer.graves using effectivedefense.org, hamedhaseli using gmail.com, 
> dennis.prangle using gmail.com
> CC: CRAN using R-project.org
>
> Dear maintainers,
>
> This concerns the CRAN packages
>
>   BDWreg DWreg Ecdat Ecfun gk
>
> maintained by one of you:
>
>   Dennis Prangle <dennis.prangle using gmail.com>: gk
>   Hamed Haselimashhadi <hamedhaseli using gmail.com>: BDWreg
>   Spencer Graves <spencer.graves using effectivedefense.org>: Ecfun Ecdat
>   Veronica Vinciotti<veronica.vinciotti using brunel.ac.uk>: DWreg
>
> We have asked for an update fixing the check problems shown at
> <https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_Ecfun.html>
> with no update from the maintainer thus far.
>
> Thus, package Ecfun is now scheduled for archival on 2022-08-08, and
> archiving this will necessitate also archiving its CRAN strong reverse
> dependencies.
>
> Please negotiate the necessary actions.
>
> The CRAN Team
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