[R-pkg-devel] corrupted NAMESPACE file

[Bill Dunlap]

Setting the locale to "C" (or perhaps some other non-UTF-8 locale) will
show the BOM bytes.  E.g., on Windows I get:

> Sys.getlocale()
[1] "LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8;LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.utf8;LC_MONETARY=English_United
States.utf8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8"
> tools::showNonASCIIfile('
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JamesRamsay5/fda/master/NAMESPACE')
> rawToChar(readBin('
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JamesRamsay5/fda/master/NAMESPACE',
what="raw", n=20))
[1] "export(AmpPhasDec"
> Sys.setlocale(locale="C")
[1] "C"
> tools::showNonASCIIfile('
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JamesRamsay5/fda/master/NAMESPACE')
1: <ef><bb><bf>export(AmpPhasDecomp,
> rawToChar(readBin('
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JamesRamsay5/fda/master/NAMESPACE',
what="raw", n=20))
[1] "\357\273\277export(AmpPhasDec"

-Bill


On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 9:16 AM Spencer Graves <
spencer.graves using effectivedefense.org> wrote:

> Hi, Ivan and Uwe:
>
>
>           Thanks for your suggestions, but I've so far been unable to get
> them
> to work.  see below.
>
>
> On 1/20/23 9:22 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 20.01.2023 15:53, Ivan Krylov wrote:
> >> В Fri, 20 Jan 2023 08:41:25 -0600
> >> Spencer Graves <spencer.graves using effectivedefense.org> пишет:
> >>
> >>> ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
> >>> Error in parse(nsFile, keep.source = FALSE, srcfile = NULL) :
> >>>     1:1: unexpected input
> >>
> >> tools::showNonASCIIfile('
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JamesRamsay5/fda/master/NAMESPACE')
> >> # 1: <ef><bb><bf>export(AmpPhaseDecomp,
> >>
> >> Your NAMESPACE file starts with a U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE.
> >> You'll need to remove it, e.g. by re-creating the first line.
> >
> >
> > Note that this is also called "byte order mark" (BOM). Tell your editor
> > not to create files with BOM.
> >
> > You can also fix in R:
> >
> > x <- readLines(..., encoding="UTF-8-BOM")
> > writeLines(x, ......)
>
>
>           In RStudio 2022.12.0+353 (the current version),
>
>
> tools::showNonASCIIfile('
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JamesRamsay5/fda/master/NAMESPACE')
>
>
> returned "char(0)".  'readLines' and 'writeLines' as Uwe suggested
> failed to fix it for me.
>
>
>           The first problem I noticed with this was that RStudio could not
> read
> the NAMESPACE file.  When I tried, it said, "File is binary rather than
> text so cannot be opened by the source editor."  I changed something
> using a different editor and did "git commit" and "git push", and got
> the error on GitHub that I reported above.  I copied the file elsewhere,
> deleted it locally and from GitHub, then recreated it in LibreOffice by
> manually typing the first and last lines then copying the rest from a
> copy I had saved elsewhere.  The RStudio would open the file, but I
> still get the same error message as above from both "R CMD build fda"
> locally and from GitHub Action at:
>
>
> https://github.com/JamesRamsay5/fda
>
>
>           Other suggestions?
>           Thanks,
>           Spencer Graves
>
> >
> > Best,
> > Uwe Ligges
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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