[R-pkg-devel] corrupted NAMESPACE file

[Greg Hunt]

xFEFF isn't a BOM in a UTF-8 file, its not anything.   The UTF-8 BOM is a
different sequence of bits.  If tools treat it as a BOM, that is arguably a
problem.

On Sat, 21 Jan 2023 at 05:09, Bill Dunlap <williamwdunlap using gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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