Error in renv::init() when there are accents in the path

[DanChaltiel]

I experience the exact same messages as #527.

However, I found out that in my case this was due to accents (mostly "é") in the path of my project.

I cannot give you a true reproducible example but I could reproduce this bug with this minimal procedure:

• In some test directory (without an accent in the path), create 2 plain old projects using RStudio > File > New Project > New directory > New Project
  • name one without accent
  • name the other with accént
• In both, activate renv using Tools > Project Options > Environments > Use renv with this project. This will run renv::activate() in the console without issue.
• In both, run renv::init() with choice 2
  • No problem in the project without accent
  • Same error than renv::init() fails with path detection #527 in the project with accént

I also tried with choice 1, it throws several errors of connection and a warning but finally outputs a sucess message.

Here is the full console log:

console log

renv::activate()
* Project 'F:/Nextcloud GR/Programmation/test renv/avéc accent' loaded. [renv 0.12.5]
> Sys.setenv(LANG = "en")
> 
> renv::init()
This project already has a private library. What would you like to do? 

1: Activate the project and use the existing library.
2: Re-initialize the project with a new library.
3: Abort project initialization.

Selection: 2
* Initializing project ...
Error in normalizePath(path, winslash = winslash, mustWork = mustWork) : 
  file name conversion problem -- name too long?
> renv::init()
This project already has a private library. What would you like to do? 

1: Activate the project and use the existing library.
2: Re-initialize the project with a new library.
3: Abort project initialization.

Selection: 1

Restarting R session...

Error in gzfile(file, "wb") : cannot open the connection
Error saving session (options): R code execution error
Error in file(file, "wb") : cannot open the connection
Error saving session (search_path): R code execution error
WARNING: Forcing suspend of process in spite of all session data not being fully saved.
# Bootstrapping renv 0.12.5 --------------------------------------------------
* Downloading renv 0.12.5 from CRAN ... OK
* Installing renv 0.12.5 ... Done!
* Successfully installed and loaded renv 0.12.5.
* Project 'F:/Nextcloud GR/Programmation/test renv/avéc accent' loaded. [renv 0.12.5]
> renv::init()
This project already has a private library. What would you like to do? 

1: Activate the project and use the existing library.
2: Re-initialize the project with a new library.
3: Abort project initialization.

Selection: 
Enter an item from the menu, or 0 to exit
Selection: 2
* Initializing project ...
* Discovering package dependencies ... Done!
* Copying packages into the cache ... Done!
The following package(s) will be updated in the lockfile:

# CRAN ===============================
- renv   [* -> 0.12.5]

* Lockfile written to 'F:/Nextcloud GR/Programmation/test renv/avéc accent/renv.lock'.

Restarting R session...

Error in gzfile(file, "wb") : impossible d'ouvrir la connexion
Error saving session (options): R code execution error
Error in file(file, "wb") : impossible d'ouvrir la connexion
Error saving session (search_path): R code execution error
WARNING: Forcing suspend of process in spite of all session data not being fully saved.
* Project 'F:/Nextcloud GR/Programmation/test renv/avéc accent' loaded. [renv 0.12.5]

[kevinushey]

Thanks for the bug report. This is unfortunately a bug in R -- for example:

> path <- file.path(tempdir(), "你好")
> file.create(path)
[1] TRUE
> 
> short <- utils::shortPathName(path)
> normalizePath(short)
[1] "C:\\tmp\\RtmpgjcFLp\\??"

and renv does something similar when normalizing paths... sigh

I'll see if we can work around this somehow.

[kevinushey]

I think this should now be better handled in the development version of renv -- could you try installing it with:

renv::install("rstudio/renv")

and let me know how things look?

[DanChaltiel]

Thanks for the quick fix!

Unfortunately, I ran the command, restarted RStudio, and redid what I've written above, the error remains the exact same.

renv version didn't change though, maybe I did it wrong.

Let me know if I should try again anytime or if you need more info.

EDIT:

Actually, if I try to install it from within the project, it immediatly throws this error:

> renv::install("rstudio/renv")
Installing renv [0.12.5-25] ...
	OK [linked cache]
Error in normalizePath(path, winslash = winslash, mustWork = mustWork)

EDIT2:

I installed the last version from github outside of renv (remotes::install_github("rstudio/renv")) then activate renv again.

Here is the output. The difference is not flagrant though.

> renv::init()
This project already has a private library. What would you like to do? 

1: Activate the project and use the existing library.
2: Re-initialize the project with a new library.
3: Abort project initialization.

Selection: 2
* Initializing project ...
* Discovering package dependencies ... Done!
* Copying packages into the cache ... Done!
The following package(s) will be updated in the lockfile:

# GitHub =============================
- renv   [* -> rstudio/renv@HEAD]

* Lockfile written to 'F:/Nextcloud GR/Programmation/test renv/avéc accent/renv.lock'.

Restarting R session...

Error in gzfile(file, "wb") : impossible d'ouvrir la connexion
Error saving session (options): R code execution error
Error in file(file, "wb") : impossible d'ouvrir la connexion
Error saving session (search_path): R code execution error
WARNING: Forcing suspend of process in spite of all session data not being fully saved.
* Project 'F:/Nextcloud GR/Programmation/test renv/avéc accent' loaded. [renv 0.12.5-25]

`sessionInfo()`

R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 18363)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252  LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                  
[5] LC_TIME=French_France.1252    

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

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.0.3 tools_4.0.3    renv_0.12.5-25

[kevinushey]

Error in gzfile(file, "wb") : impossible d'ouvrir la connexion
Error saving session (options): R code execution error
Error in file(file, "wb") : impossible d'ouvrir la connexion
Error saving session (search_path): R code execution error
WARNING: Forcing suspend of process in spite of all session data not being fully saved.

I think this is RStudio-related and independent of renv...

[DanChaltiel]

With the version I installed 2 days ago, if I check "use renv with this project" when creating a new project with an accent in the path, renv will duplicate the path with the wrong charset. For instance, if I create a project in C://foo/baré/rénv, it will duplicate the project skeleton in C://foo/baré/rénv.
I don't know if it is due to recent changes or if it is older.

However, after updating to github's last version, I get that normalizePath error again, and now even befor I get the chance to choose any option:

> renv::init()
* Initializing project ...
* Discovering package dependencies ... Done!
* Copying packages into the cache ... Done!
The following package(s) will be updated in the lockfile:

# GitHub =============================
- renv   [* -> rstudio/renv@HEAD]

* Lockfile written to 'F:/Nextcloud GR/Programmation/test rénv/tést check/renv.lock'.
Error in normalizePath(short, winslash, mustWork) : 
  problème de conversion de nom de fichier -- nom trop long ?

[kevinushey]

Thanks again for reporting back -- it looks like this is enough Windows oddity where this:

normalizePath(shortPathName(path))

can fail occasionally for 'latin1' encoded paths. Hopefully the development version of renv should handle this better...

[kevinushey]

I think this should be properly handled with renv 0.14.0 -- please feel free to re-open if you're still having trouble.