R help - Mar 2017 - "found 4 marked UTF-8 strings" during check of package... but where !

Dear members,

I want submit to CRAN a new version of a package that I maintain. When I 
check locally "as-cran" no note or error are reported but the link
after
submission reports several notes and one warning:

For example:

using R Under development (unstable) (2017-03-05 r72309)
using platform: x86_64-apple-darwin16.4.0 (64-bit)
using session charset: UTF-8
...
checking extension type ... Package
this is package ?embryogrowth? version ?6.4?
package encoding: UTF-8
...
checking data for non-ASCII characters ... NOTE
   Note: found 4 marked UTF-8 strings

I have the same with
using R version 3.3.0 (2016-05-03)
using platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)

but not with some others such as r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Based on the message, "Note: found 4 marked UTF-8 strings", it seems 
that "4 marked UTF-8 strings" are present in the package and it is a 
problem...

Is there any solution to know in which file?

Thanks
Marc

Try:

tools:::showNonASCIIfile(file)

On 3/10/2017 5:52 AM, Marc Girondot via R-help wrote:
> Based on the message, "Note: found 4 marked UTF-8 strings", it
seems
> that "4 marked UTF-8 strings" are present in the package and it
is a
> problem...
>
> Is there any solution to know in which file?

On 10/03/2017 2:52 AM, Marc Girondot via R-help wrote:
> Dear members,
>
> I want submit to CRAN a new version of a package that I maintain. When I
> check locally "as-cran" no note or error are reported but the
link after
> submission reports several notes and one warning:
>
> For example:
>
> using R Under development (unstable) (2017-03-05 r72309)
> using platform: x86_64-apple-darwin16.4.0 (64-bit)
> using session charset: UTF-8
> ...
> checking extension type ... Package
> this is package ?embryogrowth? version ?6.4?
> package encoding: UTF-8
> ...
> checking data for non-ASCII characters ... NOTE
>    Note: found 4 marked UTF-8 strings
>
> I have the same with
> using R version 3.3.0 (2016-05-03)
> using platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
>
> but not with some others such as r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
>
> Based on the message, "Note: found 4 marked UTF-8 strings", it
seems
> that "4 marked UTF-8 strings" are present in the package and it
is a
> problem...
>
> Is there any solution to know in which file?
It's one containing an object coming from your data directory.

R won't give more detail than that, but if you still can't guess, you 
could get some idea by debugging the check code:

debug(tools:::.check_package_datasets)
tools:::.check_package_datasets(pkg)

where pkg contains the path to the package source code.  That function 
does the checking one variable at a time.

Duncan Murdoch

Thanks Duncan and Michael,

Indeed I have data file with utf-8 characters inside. In the 
DESCRIPTION, I have the line Encoding: UTF-8
but it seems to not be sufficient.
In each R page for these data, I have also :
#' @docType data
#' @encoding UTF-8

But I still have the notes during check when I try to submit the package 
in CRAN (not in local --as-cran check).

How I could "say" that these data have utf-8 characters inside?

Thanks
Marc


Le 10/03/2017 ? 15:24, Duncan Murdoch a ?crit :
> On 10/03/2017 2:52 AM, Marc Girondot via R-help wrote:
>> Dear members,
>>
>> I want submit to CRAN a new version of a package that I maintain. When
I
>> check locally "as-cran" no note or error are reported but the
link after
>> submission reports several notes and one warning:
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> using R Under development (unstable) (2017-03-05 r72309)
>> using platform: x86_64-apple-darwin16.4.0 (64-bit)
>> using session charset: UTF-8
>> ...
>> checking extension type ... Package
>> this is package ?embryogrowth? version ?6.4?
>> package encoding: UTF-8
>> ...
>> checking data for non-ASCII characters ... NOTE
>>    Note: found 4 marked UTF-8 strings
>>
>> I have the same with
>> using R version 3.3.0 (2016-05-03)
>> using platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
>>
>> but not with some others such as r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
>>
>> Based on the message, "Note: found 4 marked UTF-8 strings",
it seems
>> that "4 marked UTF-8 strings" are present in the package and
it is a
>> problem...
>>
>> Is there any solution to know in which file?
>
> It's one containing an object coming from your data directory.
>
> R won't give more detail than that, but if you still can't guess,
you
> could get some idea by debugging the check code:
>
> debug(tools:::.check_package_datasets)
> tools:::.check_package_datasets(pkg)
>
> where pkg contains the path to the package source code.  That function 
> does the checking one variable at a time.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
>