Treebase release
write updated tutorial.
cran needs mac and windows binaries.
Trying devtools win_builder(); emailing Kurt. Nevermind, just got the email saying the binary has been built.
- write email announcement
rfishbase data formatting
My problem turned out not to be about “" at all, these were octal encodings of symbols used in the XML data, eg: Cape Bojador (26°N)
which xmlValue() would read in using the octal encoding “Cape Bojador (260260N)”
and which R CMD check would then complain about, giving the error in byte encoding (just to confuse me): “Cape Bojador (26
inconv() function provided my crude work-around:
string <- "Cape Bojador (26\302\260N)"
Encoding(string) <- "UTF-8"
iconv(string, "UTF-8", "ASCII", "byte") # return hex code used by R CMD check
string <- iconv(string, "UTF-8", "ASCII", "") # just drop those charsI could translate the hex errors by hand into octal, and then hand-code a better literal translation:
string <- "Cape Bojador (26\302\260N)"
string <- gsub("\302\260", " degrees ", string)but that’s too tedious and slow, I’ll cope without the degree symbol for the moment. Tedious, because I’d have to recode most UTF-8 symbols, starting by decoding their byte strings, by looking up the hex string here, then pasting the symbol into anoctal encoder. A partial list of the offenders includes:
<c2><96>, <c2><b0>, <c3><a9>, <c3><ad>, <c2><bd>, <c3><b3>A solution, if not an ideal one. At least no ASCII errors. I’d be happy for any better suggestions. Oh well, done. Package submitted to CRAN via devtools
Labrid Phylogenetics
Launch sub-model runs
Attempt to replicate Price et al. results on BM model