On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Shi, Tao <shida...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi list, > > I've encounter this problem (see below). I know it's particularly R-related > and it's easy to get by but it still bothers me a lot. > > > It looks the last character of "N.C. " is a space to me, but it's clearly > not. Can someone tell me a way to figure out what character is in the last > position.
Probably a non-breaking or other special space. You can try utf8ToInt on your character string to convert it to UTF-8 codes. Then look up the character by its code. HTH, Peter ______________________________________________ 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.