On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 10:07:42 +1100 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. (1) Don't use Kwrite (whatever that is) --- use vi[m] like civilised ( :-) ) people do. It's even available for Windoze. Yes, there is a steep learning curve, but once you've climbed it you'll never look back. (And for what it's worth, the curve is not as steep as that for emacs!!! :-) ) (2) The function tools::showNonASCII might be helpful to you. cheers, Rolf -- Honorary Research Fellow Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 ______________________________________________ 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.
