On Feb 3, 2012, at 17:23 , G See wrote: > Thank you Duncan, that is very helpful. > > Although I think we've got it sorted out now, to answer your previous > questions, it is repeatable in a new R session, and the output of > charToRaw is below. > > On Ubuntu, I get the following: >> charToRaw(x) > [1] 6e 2f 61 c2 a0
So that's a nonbreak space alright. Next question: How did it get there? I'm mildly surprised that it crept into the data frame, I would expect it to happen much easier with things typed on the keyboard (Alt-Spc on my Mac keyboard, e.g.). -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.