[R] Character entry mismatch in the console window

[jim holtman]

Since you are using WORD, you will have to turn off the "smart quotes"
since WORD is changing them as you type.  You may just want to use
something like TINN-R to store your scripts.

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Dennis Hansen <dmhansen at stanford.edu> wrote:
> Dear R users,
>
> I have just de-installed my old R 2.4.1 and installed R 2.7.0. I downloaded
> this version from the South African mirror, as I am currently working in
> South Africa.
>
> When trying to paste any of my old analyses into the console (I keep them in
> word-documents), I get an error when I first try to load the data with the
> following line (example):
>
> lap.long.dist <-
> read.table("C:\\Ranalysis\\SouthAfrica\\Lap.oreogena\\lap.long.distance.txt",
> header = TRUE);
>
> I get the error:
>
> Error: unexpected input in "lap.long.dist <- read.table(""
>
> Note that (at least on my screen now) the two " (quotation marks) at the end
> of the error message are different. The only way I can make it work is to
> manually go and delete and re-type all the "-characters in my command line
> in R, before pressing enter.
>
> This, to me, suggests that R now for some reason is "mis-matched" or
> whatever you want to call it with the way my computer uses (encodes?) its
> characters in other programmes.
>
> I am sure there is an easy way to correct this in some setting, but despite
> an hour's search on the net and elsewhere, I am no closer to solving the
> problem.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice!
>
> Dennis
>
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>
> Dennis Hansen, PhD
>
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> Department of Biology
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Jim Holtman
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