Hi again, I finally trapped the character (hexadecimal C2 capital A hat) with some low trickery.
Jim On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 10:07 AM Jim Lemon <drjimle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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.
