Unsurprisingly, this was due to user error. I found the fix. Sorry for the email clutter.
vab On Wed, Feb 5, 2020, at 08:32, Vincent Arel-Bundock wrote: > Hi everyone, > > My `countrycode` package ships with two data frames of characters in > several languages: codelist and codelist_panel. > > I converted all strings to UTF-8 using the `enc2utf8` function, but I > also tried several other ways, with the stringi package, etc. As far as > I can tell, the strings are all in UTF-8 format now: > > url <- > 'https://github.com/vincentarelbundock/countrycode/raw/master/data/codelist.rda' > temp <- tempfile() > download.file(url, temp) > load(temp) > tmp <- codelist[, sapply(codelist, is.character)] > library(stringi) > all(unlist(lapply(tmp, function(x) stri_enc_isutf8((na.omit(x)))))) > [1] TRUE > > After encoding, I saved the data frames with this command: > > save(codelist, file = 'data/codelist.rda', compress = 'xz', version = 2) > > Yet, when I run R CMD check, I get the following warning: > > checking data for non-ASCII characters ... WARNING > Warning: found non-ASCII strings > 'W<c3><bc>rtemberg' in object 'codelist' > 'S<c3><a3>o Tom<c3><a9> and Pr<c3><ad>ncipe' in object 'codelist' > 'W<c3><bc>rtemberg' in object 'codelist_panel' > 'S<c3><a3>o Tom<c3><a9> and Pr<c3><ad>ncipe' in object 'codelist_panel' > > This warning disappears if I save the data frames using `save(version = > 3)`. However, I would prefer to use version 2 to keep compatibility > with older versions of R. > > Does anyone have suggestions for how to handle this? What did I miss? > > Thanks a lot for your time! > > Vincent > > -- > Vincent Arel-Bundock > > Professeur agrégé / Associate professor > http://arelbundock.com > Université de Montréal, Science politique > 3150 rue Jean-Brillant, Pav. Lionel-Groulx, C-4020 > Montréal, Québec, Canada, H3T 1N8 -- Vincent Arel-Bundock Professeur agrégé / Associate professor http://arelbundock.com Université de Montréal, Science politique 3150 rue Jean-Brillant, Pav. Lionel-Groulx, C-4020 Montréal, Québec, Canada, H3T 1N8 ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
