psychbruce / chinesenames

🀄 Chinese Name Database (1930-2008).

📬 [email protected]

📋 psychbruce.github.io

chinesenames's Issues

Error in nchar(name) : invalid multibyte string, element 1

library(ChineseNames)
library(bruceR)
demodata
name birth
1 \xb0\xfc\xba\xae\xce\xe2˪ 1995
2 \xb3¿\xa1\xc1\xd8 1995
3 \xd5\xc5\u03b0 1985
4 \xd5\xc5\xec\xbf 1988
5 ŷ\xd1\xf4\xd0\xde 1968
6 ŷ\xd1\xf4 2010
7 \xd2\xd7\xec\xc8ǧ\xe7\xf4 2000
8 \xd5\xc5\xd2\xd5ı 1950
9 \xcd\xf5\xb5\xc4 2005

compute_name_index(demodata, var.fullname="name", var.birthyear="birth")
Error in nchar(name) : invalid multibyte string, element 1

Encoding issues when installing from Github

I am trying to install the ChineseNames package from Github: devtools::install_github("psychbruce/ChineseNames")

I get the following encoding error:

* installing *source* package 'ChineseNames' ...
** using staged installation
** R
Error : (converted from warning) unable to re-encode 'ChineseNames.R' lines 371, 373, 393, 394, 396, 397, 399, 400, 401, 402, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 410
ERROR: unable to collate and parse R files for package 'ChineseNames'
* removing 'D:/Apps/R-4.0.2/library/ChineseNames'
Error: Failed to install 'ChineseNames' from GitHub:
  (converted from warning) installation of package ‘C:/Users/gaute/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpGO9Izu/file36c4726265b3/ChineseNames_0.6.0.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status