Message-ID: <6F73B92E-155E-46BC-B597-7ABCD0DF04A9@gmail.com>
Date: 2019-12-02T17:46:47Z
From: Rafael Pereira
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] Fix non-ASCII characters in R packages
In-Reply-To: <6c29a8f8-a2ac-6d41-4376-2c90f9fdbc71@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
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:
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>
>
>> 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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