title: Problem with spacy: error: bad escape \p at position 257
body: <p>I'm getting the error</p>
  
  <pre><code>`Error in py_call_impl(callable, dots$args, dots$keywords) : error: bad escape \p at position 257 `
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>running a python code with R through the use of "reticulate" package.</p>
  
  <p>The issue comes up while executing the row:</p>
  
  <pre><code>spacy.load('en_core_web_lg')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I already checked with <code>spacy validate</code> that I have a version of spacy (v2.0.18) that agrees with the language model version (2.0.0).</p>
  
  <p>Of course the code runs fine if executed with python.</p>