So, you are on Windows (but didn't tell us). Those 'quotes' in your email
are the so-called smart quotes -- only ASCII quotation marks are accepted
by R.
The change is that R 2.7.0 is actually reading what you pasted into the
clipboard, not some converted version (as previous versions of R did,
although why that conversion did not send the directional quotes which are
in CP1252 is a mystery). You need to sort this out in your OS -- it is
best to switch off 'smart quotes' in Word, and do a search-and-replace
there (or use a better editor).
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Dennis Hansen wrote:
Dear R users,
I have just de-installed my old R 2.4.1 and installed R 2.7.0. I downloaded
this version from the South African mirror, as I am currently working in
South Africa.
When trying to paste any of my old analyses into the console (I keep them in
word-documents), I get an error when I first try to load the data with the
following line (example):
lap.long.dist <-
read.table(“C:\\Ranalysis\\SouthAfrica\\Lap.oreogena\\lap.long.distance.txt”,
header = TRUE);
I get the error:
Error: unexpected input in "lap.long.dist <- read.table(“"
Note that (at least on my screen now) the two " (quotation marks) at the end
of the error message are different. The only way I can make it work is to
manually go and delete and re-type all the "-characters in my command line in
R, before pressing enter.
This, to me, suggests that R now for some reason is "mis-matched" or whatever
you want to call it with the way my computer uses (encodes?) its characters
in other programmes.
Not 'other programmes', just Word.
I am sure there is an easy way to correct this in some setting, but despite
an hour's search on the net and elsewhere, I am no closer to solving the
problem.
Thanks in advance for any advice!
Dennis
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Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Biology
371 Serra Mall, Gilbert Building, Room 109
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-5020
USA
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