jimjam-slam
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4 years ago Sorry for the delay getting back to you, @cesar-galvao!
My only hunch with this problem is that your Mac user name, which contains non-ASCII characters (ã), is causing package installation problems. I say this because the first part of the error says refers to your user name with the diacritic in it. Then, after the message "Unknown encoding with non-ASCII data: converting to ASCII", a path to your user folder appears without the diacritic.
I think the easiest ways to test this would be to:
(a) Check whether you're able to install other packages using devtools. For example, devtools::install_github('vincentarelbundock/countrycode'), and if that doesn't work, install.packages('countrycode'). If the former fails but the latter succeeds, this could be a problem with devtools.
(b) Try creating a new Windows user whose name doesn't have a diacritic in it and installing ggflags for that user.
I'm using this to install ggflags:
devtools::install_github("rensa/ggflags")This is the error message I get:
` √ checking for file 'C:\Users\Cesar Augusto Galvão\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpSmDcvg\remotesb085dfc42bb\rensa-ggflags-401494a/DESCRIPTION' ...
preparing 'ggflags': √ checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... Warning in .write_description(db, ldpath) : Unknown encoding with non-ASCII data: converting to ASCII
checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
checking for empty or unneeded directories
looking to see if a 'data/datalist' file should be added
building 'ggflags_0.0.2.tar.gz'
installing source package 'ggflags' ... Error in file(file, if (append) "a" else "w") : (converted from warning) cannot open file 'C:/Users/Cesar Augusto Galvco/Documents/R/win-library/3.5/ggflags/DESCRIPTION': No such file or directory ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed for package 'ggflags'
removing 'C:/Users/Cesar Augusto Galvão/Documents/R/win-library/3.5/ggflags' In R CMD INSTALL `
I'm sorry I'm reaching out to you, I can`t seem to find anyone else having this problem.