ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed for package 'rrtools'

[guhjy]

devtools::install_github("benmarwick/rrtools") Downloading GitHub repo benmarwick/rrtools@master from URL https://api.github.com/repos/benmarwick/rrtools/zipball/master Installing rrtools "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-34~1.2/bin/x64/R" --no-site-file --no-environ \ --no-save --no-restore --quiet CMD INSTALL \ "C:/Users/Jinn-Yuh/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpwZgVAC/devtools2fb0eca7ba1/benmarwick-rrtools-45c4a9b" \ --library="D:/Dropbox/Stat/R/Library" --install-tests

• installing source package 'rrtools' ... Error in parse(con, encoding = "UTF-8") : invalid multibyte character in parser at line 4 ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed for package 'rrtools'
• removing 'D:/Dropbox/Stat/R/Library/rrtools' Installation failed: Command failed (1)

[nevrome]

Could be a localization problem. Can you please post the output of

sessionInfo()

[guhjy]

devtools::install_github("benmarwick/rrtools") ... sessionInfo() R version 3.4.2 (2017-09-28) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows >= 8 x64 (build 9200)

Matrix products: default

locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=Chinese (Traditional)_Taiwan.950 [2] LC_CTYPE=Chinese (Traditional)_Taiwan.950
[3] LC_MONETARY=Chinese (Traditional)_Taiwan.950 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=Chinese (Traditional)_Taiwan.950

attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods
[7] base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] httr_1.3.1 compiler_3.4.2 R6_2.2.2
[4] tools_3.4.2 withr_2.0.0 curl_3.0
[7] yaml_2.1.14 memoise_1.1.0 git2r_0.19.0
[10] digest_0.6.12 devtools_1.13.3

[nevrome]

Localization problems are always hard to debug and as I have no Windows system with East Asian language support I can't test anything. Maybe you could try to change your localization to english. To can dive deeper into this rabbit hole: ?Sys.getlocale

Do you only have this problem with rrtools or also with other packages you install from github?

[guhjy]

No, I have no problems installing other packages from github.

[benmarwick]

Yes, this is tricky because of the difficulty in reproducing the problem. I bet it's the ü and ß in Nils' name that is the cause of this error. One solution could be

Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL","English")

Or other ideas at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16347731/how-to-change-the-locale-of-r-in-rstudio

Another option is for @guhjy to fork this repo, get rid of the ü and ß in the DESCRIPTION, and try to install that. Or we could make a branch like that.

[guhjy]

I fork this repo, get rid of the ü and ß in the DESCRIPTION and it works. Thank you for your help.

[benmarwick]

Ok, thanks for trying that and reporting back. Good to know where the problem lies.

Can we ask @nmueller18 if he is ok for us to use a simplified version of his name that uses u instead ü and ss instead of ß in the DESCRIPTION?

That change will make this pkg more accessible to R users with Chinese locales, like @guhjy, and perhaps other non-western locales.

[nmueller18]

Of cause it is okay. In fact, I do this myself when writing e-mails.

[benmarwick]

Thanks @nmueller18. @guhjy you should be able to install this from the master branch here now. Let us know if you have any problems.