As per `?intToUtf8`, and in the comments to `valid_utf8`[1], R
intends to prevent illegal UTF-8 such as UTF-8 encoded
UTF-16 surrogate pairs. `R_nchar`, invoked via `base::nchar`,
explicitly validates UTF-8 strings[2], but allows the surrogate:
> Encoding('\ud800')
[1] "UTF-8"
> ncha
As with many areas of R usage, my view is that the concern is one
of making it easier to find appropriate information quickly. The
difficulty is that different users have different needs. So if
one wants to know (most of) what is available, the Time Series
Task View is helpful. If one is a novice,
On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 at 11:51, Martin Maechler wrote:
>
> This is mostly a RFC [but *not* about the many extra packages, please..]:
>
> Noticing to my chagrin how my students work in a project,
> googling for R code and cut'n'pasting stuff together, accumulating
> this and that package on the way
This is mostly a RFC [but *not* about the many extra packages, please..]:
Noticing to my chagrin how my students work in a project,
googling for R code and cut'n'pasting stuff together, accumulating
this and that package on the way all just for simple daily time series
(though with partly missi
