pander function with problem of Chinese character Error:basic_string::_S_create

[furthermore]

I use R 3.1.1 under win10

Only when I user pander() function chinese character cannot show,how can I solve this problem ,thanks!

[daroczig]

@RomanTsegelskyi any ideas on this?

[daroczig]

@furthermore, can you please add your devtools::session_info() and also try the above with the most recent version of pander installed from Github?

[elikesprogramming]

I get the same error with pander::pandoc.table when I try to avoid splitting wide tables (split.tables = Inf), if it contains non-ascii characters. The error is actually when the function calls table.expand.

Error in table.expand(x, t.width, justify, sep.col) :
basic_string::_S_create

See this example:

df1 <- data.frame(
	name = "Max Mueller", 
	desc = "Only ascii characters"
) 
pander::pandoc.table(df1, keep.line.breaks = TRUE, style = 'grid', justify = 'left', split.tables = Inf)

This works fine:

> df1 <- data.frame(
+ 	name = "Max Mueller", 
+ 	desc = "Only ascii characters"
+ ) 
> pander::pandoc.table(df1, keep.line.breaks = TRUE, style = 'grid', justify = 'left', split.tables = Inf)


+-------------+-----------------------+
| name        | desc                  |
+=============+=======================+
| Max Mueller | Only ascii characters |
+-------------+-----------------------+

But if the content has non-ascii characters (note the ü instead of ue), it fails:

> df1 <- data.frame(
+ 	name = "Max Müller", 
+ 	desc = "Now it has non-ascii characters"
+ ) 
> pander::pandoc.table(df1, keep.line.breaks = TRUE, style = 'grid', justify = 'left', split.tables = Inf)
Error in table.expand(x, t.width, justify, sep.col) : 
  basic_string::_S_create

Below the session info

> devtools::session_info()
Session info --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 setting  value                       
 version  R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21)
 system   x86_64, mingw32             
 ui       RStudio (1.0.143)           
 language (EN)                        
 collate  German_Germany.1252         
 tz       Europe/Berlin               
 date     2017-07-07                  

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[daroczig]

I think this has been fixed with #296, please confirm.