Hi all, I have encountered a problem in some emails with invisible characters in code snippets that throw an error when pasted into the terminal window:
Error: unexpected input in: "star_wars_matrix<-matrix(box_office,nrow=3,byrow=TRUE, �" This morning, after two hours of intense frustration, I found that I could reproduce this by typing code containing the above line into Kwrite, the text editor I use. When I pasted the code from Kwrite, it worked in the R terminal window. When I pasted it into a gmail message (set to Plain Text), copied that and pasted it into the R terminal window, I got the error. I was helping a young friend with one of those introductory R courses, but I have had this happen with other requests on the R help list. I thought that it was the fault of the fancy formatting in some emails, and could grumpily blame that, but this is worse as I can't seem to edit it out. Anybody else had this problem? I have sent a message to Gmail help. Jim ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
