Problem with Home Directory: "Error in nchar(homeDir) : invalid multibyte string, element 1" in R version 4.2

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#1

Hi

I am having so many problems with the accent of Ú in the name of my home directory (C:/Users/JESÚS/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.2). It does not allow me to install so many packages that I need. Apparently in the latest version of R it is possible to activate the experimental utf8 encoding. Would that solve the problem? If so, How can I do it? Any help would be very welcome.

Thanks in advance

#2

Not in R, you need to enable it on Windows but have in mind that this might have unexpected repercussions like not being able to open existing xlsxm files

https://helpcenter.nshift.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016886479-Errors-caused-by-Windows-10-Unicode-UTF-8-encoding#:~:text=Open%20Windows%20Control%20Panel%20->%20Region,OK%20and%20restart%20your%20computer.

Another option would be to set your default package library in another folder without non-ASCII characters in its path.

You can change the default library folder by setting your R_LIBS_SITE environmental variable in a .Reviron or .Rprofile file. For example:

# In a .Renviron file you can set it by adding a line like this one with the desired location 
R_LIBS_SITE="C:\\Program Files\\R\\R-4.1.2\\library"

For a more detailed explanation, you can read this blog post

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