[R-pkg-devel] Fix non-ASCII characters in R packages

Thanks for the heads up, Ivan. In any case, I?ll change the encoding of the database.

Uwe, I?m faxing this issue in the geobr package

Rafael H.M. Pereira

On 2 Dec 2019, at 13:39, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:

On 02.12.2019 15:29, peter dalgaard wrote:
Dunno if it helps, but the NOTE is about "checking data", which, as far as I can decipher the code, means that it is looking at datasets in the data/ directory. So I suspect that looking at *.R files is not going to be the right thing to do.
-pd

On 2 Dec 2019, at 14:57 , Rafael Pereira <rafa.pereira.br at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I am trying to update my R package on CRAN but I am being requested to fix
this NOTE:

checking data for non-ASCII characters ... NOTE Note: found 58 marked
Latin-1 strings

Have we really asked you to fix these?
Which packages is this?

Best,
Uwe Ligges

I have used to code below to identify my scripts that have strings using
non-ASCII characters. The problem is that in most cases these non-ASCII
characters are used in the documentation of functions, so I cannot simply
convert their encoding using iconv() for example

# Find scripts using non-ASCII characters
  f <- list.files(pattern = "*.R", recursive = T)
  r <- lapply(f, tools::showNonASCIIfile)

I've tried (1) reopening and (2) resaving those scripts with UTF-8
encoding, (3) setting UTF-8 as the default encoding of the project, but
nothing seems to fix this issue. Any suggestions?

obs. I've posted this question on SO
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59139923/fix-non-ascii-characters-in-r-packages

best,

Rafael Pereira

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