On 1/23/23 17:30, Maxim Nazarov wrote:
Hello all, I am submitting a minor update to one of my CRAN package (BIGL), and get strange errors on R-devel on win-builder - https://win-builder.r-project.org/incoming_pretest/BIGL_1.6.7_20230119_225109/Windows/00check.log and https://win-builder.r-project.org/o339zPAR6pWG/00check.log (different symbols) It shows strange output like "`1Y���hA�..." before tests and cryptic error-messages like "unable to translate '(<be><b1><a7>m' to a wide string" I can also see similar output in examples - https://win-builder.r-project.org/o339zPAR6pWG/examples_and_tests/BIGL-Ex.Rout
These are errors and warnings in regex operations (grep, gsub) due to that the input data is not a valid string (validly encoded string). Because it is not valid, it cannot be converted to a wide string, which is needed for the regex operation, as this uses TRE.
So, you need to find out why the input strings are invalid. Common causes of such problems are that they are in a different encoding from the one told to R or to some other software on the way. Also the data may be corrupted.
I don't get any isses on debian R-devel, on R-release on windows, and also can't reproduce the errors locally on a windows machine with R-devel, so I am a bit lost. Would anyone have any idea of what goes wrong?
It should be fairly easy from the error output to find out which operations have failed in the vignette. Perhaps you could find out how their inputs were generated.
If you have a Windows machine with R running in UTF-8 as the native encoding, with recent R-devel, and the error is still not reproducible, try to confirm that the inputs for the failing operations are correct.
Best Tomas
Kind regards, Maxim Nazarov ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
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