Hi everyone, thank you for the responses. I did some more searching after I had posted my question. It was a BOM (Byte Order Mark) issue. I removed the BOM from all of my files and I have been successful at submitting the packages to CRAN.
Thank you again. Irucka <-----Original Message-----> >From: Uwe Ligges [lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de] >Sent: 2/3/2016 7:38:05 AM >To: li...@dewey.myzen.co.uk;murdoch.dun...@gmail.com;iruc...@mail2world.com; r-package-devel@r- >project.org >Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package fails to build on Windows only, builds on GNU/Linux (parse issue) > >On 03.02.2016 14:31, Michael Dewey wrote: >> Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@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 have >>>> 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 Windows I see a string which >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 for >>>> 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 this >>>> issue in the past with any of my R packages using the Kate text editor. >>>> >>>> I have a few packages that have the same issue. >>>> >>>> Thank you. >>>> >>>> Irucka Embry >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________________________Get >>> the Free email that has everyone talking at [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> R-package-devel@r-project.org >>> mailing list >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >>>> >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-package-devel@r-project.org >>> mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >> >. > <span id=m2wTl><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" style="font-size:13.5px">_______________________________________________________________<BR>Get the Free email that has everyone talking at <a href=http://www.mail2world.com target=new>http://www.mail2world.com</a><br> <font color=#999999>Unlimited Email Storage – POP3 – Calendar – SMS – Translator – Much More!</font></font></span> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
