Re: [R-SIG-Mac] character set problem

2019-02-19 Thread bretschr
Dear Kevin Ushey, Re: > On 19 Feb 2019, at 20:16, Kevin Ushey wrote: > > If I understand correctly, the problem is that the character your keyboard is > inserting is not a regular caret (^, \u0053); rather, it's a 'modifier > character circumflex accent' (ˆ, \u02c6). > > How are you

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] character set problem

2019-02-19 Thread Kevin Ushey
If I understand correctly, the problem is that the character your keyboard is inserting is not a regular caret (^, \u0053); rather, it's a 'modifier character circumflex accent' (ˆ, \u02c6). How are you inserting the carat on your laptop? For what it's worth, I get a 'regular' caret with Shift +

[R-SIG-Mac] character set problem

2019-02-19 Thread bretschr
Dear R-users, Last week I installed R 3.5.2 on a new MacBook Air. I got error messages for the wrong locale (character set). And simple math proved not to work: Upon typing this, I got: > 2ˆ2 Error: unexpected input in "2À" > The character visible as a caret is apparently coded as something