Re: [R] the invisible question

2020-11-22 Thread Abby Spurdle
If I copy a paste into Consulus (my Java/Swing based software), I get a square. (Screenshot, attached). But the interesting thing is, that there's a different result, running the code via the source function (with the defaults anyway), from piping it in. ___

Re: [R] the invisible question

2020-11-22 Thread Abby Spurdle
I have no idea what everyone's talking about. What invisible character The black triangle triangle with a question mark renders fine in (my) gmail. And it's a unicode character used when there was a problem reading (presumably text) data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specials_(Unicode_block)

Re: [R] the invisible question

2020-11-22 Thread Jim Lemon
Yep, that's it. It's not Kwrite that is doing it, but Gmail. I'll try to find a Gmail help list or help desk that can provide info. thanks. Jim On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 12:35 PM David Winsemius wrote: > > > On 11/22/20 5:20 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 10:07:42 +1100 > > Jim Lem

Re: [R] the invisible question

2020-11-22 Thread David Winsemius
On 11/22/20 5:20 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 10:07:42 +1100 Jim Lemon 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<

Re: [R] the invisible question

2020-11-22 Thread Rolf Turner
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 10:07:42 +1100 Jim Lemon 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,byr

Re: [R] the invisible question

2020-11-22 Thread Jim Lemon
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 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 t

[R] the invisible question

2020-11-22 Thread Jim Lemon
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 f