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

Spencer Graves @pencer@gr@ve@ @end|ng |rom e||ect|vede|en@e@org
Tue Jul 19 19:32:20 CEST 2022


Hi, Bill, Tomas, et al.:


On 7/19/22 12:10 PM, Bill Dunlap wrote:
> Have you tried changing the \x's in that file with \u's?
> 
>  > qx <- c("\xf6", "\xf8", "\xdf", "\xfc")
>  > Encoding(qx) <- "latin1"
>  > qu <- c("\uf6", "\uf8", "\udf", "\ufc")
>  > Encoding(qu)
> [1] "UTF-8" "UTF-8" "UTF-8" "UTF-8"
>  > qx == qu
> [1] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE


I have not tried anything yet for three reasons:


	  1.  I don't know that I have access to anything that can do the 
proper test that's required, so I can know if I've fixed it or not.


	  2.  Tomas' blog included examples that seemed to say to replace 
"\xa0" with "\u00a0", NOT "\ua0", and I don't know if this difference 
matters or not.


	  3.  Can someone provide me with a link to the correct development 
version of help('iconv')?  The current version includes the exact 
offending "\x" strings that I have.  If I know the fix in the correct 
development version of help('iconv'), I can copy that.  Without that, 
I'm being asked to correct something that may not have been corrected in 
the development version of the base package.


	  Thanks,
	  Spencer

> 
> (charToRaw shows that qu and qx are not byte-for-byte identical: '==' 
> coerces the latin1 strings to utf-8.)
> 
> -Bill
> 
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 9:38 AM Spencer Graves 
> <spencer.graves using effectivedefense.org 
> <mailto:spencer.graves using effectivedefense.org>> wrote:
> 
>     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
>     <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
>     <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
>     <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
>     <mailto:ripley using stats.ox.ac.uk>>
>      >> Reply-To: CRAN using R-project.org
>      >> To: veronica.vinciotti using brunel.ac.uk
>     <mailto:veronica.vinciotti using brunel.ac.uk>,
>      >> spencer.graves using effectivedefense.org
>     <mailto:spencer.graves using effectivedefense.org>, hamedhaseli using gmail.com
>     <mailto:hamedhaseli using gmail.com>,
>      >> dennis.prangle using gmail.com <mailto: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
>     <mailto:dennis.prangle using gmail.com>>: gk
>      >>   Hamed Haselimashhadi <hamedhaseli using gmail.com
>     <mailto:hamedhaseli using gmail.com>>: BDWreg
>      >>   Spencer Graves <spencer.graves using effectivedefense.org
>     <mailto:spencer.graves using effectivedefense.org>>: Ecfun Ecdat
>      >>   Veronica Vinciotti<veronica.vinciotti using brunel.ac.uk
>     <mailto: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
>     <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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