Thank you Duncan, that is very helpful. Although I think we've got it sorted out now, to answer your previous questions, it is repeatable in a new R session, and the output of charToRaw is below.
On Ubuntu, I get the following: > charToRaw(x) [1] 6e 2f 61 c2 a0 On Mac, I get: > charToRaw(x) [1] 6e 2f 61 Thanks to all for the help, Garrett On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12-02-03 11:10 AM, G See wrote: >> >> Sorry, I meant >> Do you know of a way to print a string such that I can see whether it >> contains a *space* or a no-break space? > > > Use tools::showNonASCII(x). On Petr's example, it gives > > 1: n/a<c2><a0> > > Duncan Murdoch > > >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:10 AM, G See<gsee...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Petr, >>> >>> Thank you! That is great. >>> >>> Do you know of a way to print a string such that I can see whether it >>> contains a string or a no-break space? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Garrett >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Petr Savicky<savi...@cs.cas.cz> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 09:25:10AM -0600, G See wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I have a data.frame named "df". The dput of df is at the bottom of this >>>>> e-mail. >>>>> What I'd like to do is replace the "n/a " values with NA. On Mac OSX, >>>>> it works >>>>> to do this: >>>>> df[df == "n/a"]<- NA >>>>> >>>>> However, it does not work on Ubuntu. See below. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance, >>>>> Garrett >>>>> >>>>>> x<- df[27, 4] # complete data.frame dput is below >>>>>> dput(x) >>>>> >>>>> "n/a " >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi. >>>> >>>> This string contains a no-break space, not a space. >>>> >>>> "n/a " == "n/a\uA0" >>>> >>>> [1] TRUE >>>> >>>> "n/a\uA0" >>>> >>>> [1] "n/a " >>>> >>>> Hope this helps. >>>> >>>> Petr Savicky. >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >>>> 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. >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> 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. > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.