It's also easy enough to remove that symbol with the built-in editor in the R GUI.
Paste the code into a document. Even though that character is invisitble, it is there. In my experience it has been in the first column on each line. I copy that character (even though it looks exactly like a blank space) and using the Find command under the Edit menu item use "replace all" to replace every occurence with a blank. (paste in the character where it says "Find", and type a space where it says "Replace with:" Then click the "replace all" button.) --Susan On Aug 29, 2012, at 5:43 PM, David Winsemius wrote: > > On Aug 29, 2012, at 1:13 AM, Brandon Hurr wrote: > >> I've been noticing lately some weirdness in the editor when copying >> and pasting code. >> >> Last night when I was trying to run some code from the ggplot2 mailing >> list I pasted the code in from gmail. As usual, there were extra line >> breaks that caused the code to fail. >> >> I pasted the code into the script editor to fix the line breaks and >> then copy/pasted it into R-GUI. I then got a lot more errors than I >> did previously, all of which were caused by the insertion of an >> invisible "¬" symbol (a logical not). >> >> Here: https://plus.google.com/116319893425910717496/posts/5Yxkk7GFwts >> is a screen shot. >> > > I have had similar problems with stuff copied from web postings and generally > solve them by pasting first into an editing session with TextWrangler and > using it's sanitizing functions, Zap Gremlins, IIRC. I first tried to delete > them with TextEdit.app but they proved remarkably persistent. > > >> The code in question is from this question: >> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/ggplot2/BxSDoDjJgSA >> ... but this has happened before a few times (I cannot recall when it >> started, recently... perhaps since installing ML, but maybe before >> that). If I hit up to input the previous previous command the "¬" are >> not there and when I search in the editor for this symbol nothing is found. >> >> Is there something going on with the editor or the clipboard or ...? >> Where should I be looking? >> >> Brandons-MacBook-Air:~ bhurr$ system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType >> Software: > > -- > > > David Winsemius, MD > Alameda, CA, USA > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
