[R-pkg-devel] Package fails to build on Windows only, builds on GNU/Linux (parse issue)

From: Uwe Ligges [ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de]
Sent: 2/3/2016 7:38:05 AM
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Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package fails to build on Windows only,

On 03.02.2016 14:31, Michael Dewey wrote:

Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote :

On 02/02/2016 2:23 PM, Irucka Embry wrote:

https://gitlab.com/iembry/install.load/raw/master/R/install_load.R

is

the link to raw R code for my package. I have been successful at
building the package on GNU/Linux, but building on Windows fails. I

used R 3.2.3 in both cases.

On Windows, using readLines, this is the result of the Line 1:

[1] "?#' Check, Install and Load CRAN & USGS GRAN Packages"

When I view that line via my webmail and using Chrome browser on

seems to start:

lower case i possibly with an umlaut
closing guillemet
inverted question mark
hash symbol

I guess the file is UTF-8 encoded and you read it under Windows as 
latin1 or therelike, so declare an encoding.

Best,
Uwe Ligges

whereas the GNU/Linux example just starts hash symbol

Hope that helps someone

On GNU/Linux, using readLines, this is the result of Line 1:

[1] "#' Check, Install and Load CRAN & USGS GRAN Packages"


Can someone offer suggestions on how to fix this character issue

Windows package development?

I can't see any difference there. Is that the point, or do you see a
difference?

What is the exact error message you get when parsing?

Duncan Murdoch

I have created the R code with the Kate text editor. I have not had

issue in the past with any of my R packages using the Kate text

I have a few packages that have the same issue.

Thank you.

Irucka Embry

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