Error: lexical error: invalid character inside string

[jotech]

Hi,
thank you for providing this useful package :)

Besides most queries working quite well, I'm having problems to get data for a specific bacdive id:

retrieve_data(searchTerm=76, searchType = "bacdive_id")
76 Error: lexical error: invalid character inside string.
          r with 200 mg cycloheximide ml 21", "enrichment_cult_composi
                     (right here) ------^

The corresponding entry is:
https://bacdive.dsmz.de/search?search=76

I'm not sure what causes the error maybe a linebreak?

[katrinleinweber]

Yeah, something like this. I already implemented b9db8be &

BacDiveR/R/util-repair_escaping.R

Lines 12 to 17 in 18cb3d7

	repair_escaping <- function(JSON, char) {
	gsub(
	pattern = paste0("\\", char),
	replacement = paste0("\\\\", char),
	perl = TRUE,
	JSON

to catch those, but it seems there is another one. Thanks for posting the exact entry. I'll start digging into this.

[katrinleinweber]

Ah, I implemented that repair only during aggregation of multiple datasets, not for an individual. Fix incoming 🎉

[jotech]

this worked, great thank you :)

[katrinleinweber]

I thank you for being the 1st actual user to provide feedback on this R package :-)

[katrinleinweber]

If you ever fill out their user survey, please mention #72 & #32 to them. The need for login credentials, and the full dataset download are causing the biggest headaches for me.

[JackLMc]

This seems to have cropped back up as an issue in bd_retrieve(id = "717")
In fact, when testing all the examples, I am getting the same lexical error.

[katrinleinweber]

Hi @JackLMc 👋 Please see #118 for the reason. Thanks for trying BacDiveR, nonetheless :-)