non-ASCII strings

[eroten]

Low-priority issue, but it would be nice if we could remove/replace non-ASCII characters

See potential solution https://stackoverflow.com/a/37254905

[ashleyasmus]

you bet, where are you seeing these?

[eroten]

I'm getting a whole slew of warnings when I check the package. I believe its the open response entries in tbi_tables

[ashleyasmus]

got it. if the error messages are still handy to you, can you paste them in? And, are you using 2021 data now, or still only 2019?

[eroten]

2019 only. This is what I get when I run an R CMD CHECK

Warning: found non-ASCII strings
     'How often do you use a smartphone-app ride service (e.g.<c2><a0>Lyft, Uber)?' in object 'input_question_list'
     'How often do you use a smartphone-app ride service (e.g.<c2><a0>Lyft, Uber)?' in object 'tbi_dict'
     'Didn<e2><80><99>t need to go anywhere' in object 'tbi_tables'
     'Elderly and doesn<e2><80><99>t drive and no appointments' in object 'tbi_tables'
     'Didn<e2><80><99>t need to' in object 'tbi_tables'
     'Didn<e2><80><99>t need to leave home' in object 'tbi_tables'
     'CJN was home with JLN because it was JLN<e2><80><99>s day off.' in object 'tbi_tables'
     'He<e2><80><99>s a baby' in object 'tbi_tables'
     'I<e2><80><99>m elderly. Because of snowy conditions I didn<e2><80><99>t go out.' in object 'tbi_tables'
     'Walked to bus stop ro go to son<e2><80><99>s school' in object 'tbi_tables'
     'Going to son<e2><80><99>s school' in object 'tbi_tables'
     'Went to another family member<e2><80><99>s for dinner.' in object 'tbi_tables'
     'Pick up daughter<e2><80><99>s friend for trip to mall' in object 'tbi_tables'
     'Went to candy store to order Christmas gift to send to daughter<e2><80><99>s family in Texas' in object 'tbi_tables'
     'Drove to friend<e2><80><99>s house' in object 'tbi_tables'
     'Daughter<e2><80><99>s violin lesson' in object 'tbi_tables'
     'A<e2><80><99>s youth ballet class' in object 'tbi_tables'
     'Stopped at friend<e2><80><99>s place to pick up his son to take him to Hudson.' in object 'tbi_tables'
     'Went to check progress of construction of sister<e2><80><99>s new home.' in object 'tbi_tables'
     'Returned to sister<e2><80><99>s house' in object 'tbi_tables'
     'Boyfriend<e2><80><99>s holiday work party and networking' in object 'tbi_tables'

[ashleyasmus]

Thank you!!! ok I see right away that we need to get rid of d_purpose_other

[ashleyasmus]

also lol Boyfriend<80><99>s holiday work party and networking

[ashleyasmus]

Liz: can you bring over tbi19 object from metc.tbi.helper and use that instead?
(Edited to add: I will make a branch to do this exact thing)

[eroten]

Are you referring to https://github.com/Metropolitan-Council/metc.tbi.helper/blob/main/data/tbi_tables.rda?

[ashleyasmus]

lol no because i hadn't pushed my commits yet! really winning today: https://github.com/Metropolitan-Council/metc.tbi.helper/blob/main/data/tbi19.rda

[eroten]

Does this follow the same formatting as tbi_tables? Like, can I just do usethis::use_data_raw(tbi19)?

[ashleyasmus]

yes! but also note: the dictionary is in the object too, so you might need to replace calls to tbi_dict with tbi19$dictionary

[ashleyasmus]

I believe this is now fixed with [ab3cbc7] over at metc.tbi.helper (Metropolitan-Council/metc.tbi.helper@ab3cbc7)