install_github fails, files with accents #847

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1. gaborcsardi commented on Mar 23, 2026

   

   gaborcsardi

   on Mar 23, 2026

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   This works for me, what's your OS, R version and default encoding?
2. tdhock commented on Mar 23, 2026

   

   tdhock

   on Mar 23, 2026

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   this is on windows 11. I’m not sure what is the default encoding?

   > remotes::install_github("tdhock/2026-01-aa-grande-echelle/demos/Rcpp-add-pkg@réf-issue")
   Using GitHub PAT from the git credential store.
   Downloading GitHub repo tdhock/2026-01-aa-grande-echelle@réf-issue
   Error: Failed to install 'Rcpp.add' from GitHub:
     input string 61 is invalid
   In addition: Warning message:
   In gsub("[^/]", "", file_list) :
     unable to translate 'tdhock-2026-01-aa-grande-echelle-561a217/r+<ac>f+<ac>rences.org' to a wide string
   > traceback()
   7: stop(remote_install_error(remotes[[i]], e))
   6: value[[3L]](cond)
   5: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
   4: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
   3: tryCatch(res[[i]] <- install_remote(remotes[[i]], ...), error = function(e) {
          stop(remote_install_error(remotes[[i]], e))
      })
   2: install_remotes(remotes, auth_token = auth_token, host = host, 
          dependencies = dependencies, upgrade = upgrade, force = force, 
          quiet = quiet, build = build, build_opts = build_opts, build_manual = build_manual, 
          build_vignettes = build_vignettes, repos = repos, type = type, 
          ...)
   1: remotes::install_github("tdhock/2026-01-aa-grande-echelle/demos/Rcpp-add-pkg@réf-issue")
   > sessionInfo()
   R version 4.5.2 (2025-10-31 ucrt)
   Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
   Running under: Windows 11 x64 (build 26100)
   
   Matrix products: default
     LAPACK version 3.12.1
   
   locale:
   [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8   
   [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C                          
   [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8    
   
   time zone: America/Toronto
   tzcode source: internal
   
   attached base packages:
   [1] stats     graphics  utils     datasets  grDevices methods   base     
   
   loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
   [1] compiler_4.5.2 tools_4.5.2    curl_7.0.0     remotes_2.5.0 
   > Encoding("ê")
   [1] "UTF-8"
   > Encoding(" ")
   [1] "unknown"