Just incidentally, \xCA in MacRoman encoding is an NBSP – non-breaking space,
which is the only one that looks sane. In Unicode, it’s Latin capital letter E
with circumflex, as it is in ISO 8859-1.
Peter
—
p...@ehealth.id.au
Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I
will; be clean.”
> On 14 Feb 2021, at 2:34 pm, Ken Beath <k...@kjbeath.com.au> wrote:
…
> There is an option in the read.table command of stringsAsFactors. You can set
> it to FALSE to obtain character strings. You can also convert the factor to
> character using as.character().
>
…
> Ken
>
>> On 14 Feb 2021, at 9:54 am, Parkhurst, David F. <parkh...@indiana.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I have a problem I don’t know how to deal with. I’ve used read.table to
>> create the data frame called msPdf. It contains three vectors: month,
>> site, conc. Some of the site values look like this: MLH\xca.
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