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

[Spencer Graves]

Hi, Tomas:


On 7/19/22 2:20 AM, Tomas Kalibera wrote:
> 
> 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.


	  "subNonStandardCharacters.Rd" copies examples from:


https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/base/versions/3.6.2/topics/iconv


	  This file still contains "\x" in 5 places.  What's the recommended 
fix?  Replace "\x" with "\u00" everyplace?


	  I could try that, but I don't know if I have access to platforms that 
would tell me if I fixed it or not ;-)


	  Thanks very much.
	  Spencer Graves

> 
> 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>
>> Reply-To: CRAN using R-project.org
>> 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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