On Jul 16, 2005, at 9:58 AM, Thomas Lumley wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, David Groos wrote: > >> Thank you-all very much for your help, your responses and help has >> been >> very encouraging. The following doesn't close the case but it tables >> it... >> >> First I copied Ken's code into my R Console and...it worked great! >> That was baffling as it looked identical to mine. >> >> I did not explicitly say earlier that the code I sent out I had copied >> from the console, pasted into MS Word, changed font size, then pasted >> it into the e-mail--in other words, that was a copy of one of the >> codes >> that didn't work. >> > > Mysterious syntax errors on OS X can result from copying and pasting > into R. Files that look perfectly innocent can contain Windows line > endings (\r\n) or en-dashes instead of hyphens. These might well be > transparently fixed in the process of converting to email. I'll put this, as well as the copying/pasting as unformatted text as recommends Spencer, into my bag of tricks. > > If you actually typed into the R console then this won't explain it, > of course. And indeed, I did type right into the R console, so the mystery remains... Thanks, David > > -thomas >
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