[R] Cannot get "==" operator to return TRUE

[G See]

Sorry, I meant
Do you know of a way to print a string such that I can see whether it
contains a *space* or a no-break space?


On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:10 AM, G See <gsee000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Petr,
>
> Thank you!  That is great.
>
> Do you know of a way to print a string such that I can see whether it
> contains a string or a no-break space?
>
> Thanks,
> Garrett
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Petr Savicky <savicky at cs.cas.cz> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 09:25:10AM -0600, G See wrote:
>>> I have a data.frame named "df". The dput of df is at the bottom of this e-mail.
>>> What I'd like to do is replace the "n/a " values with NA.  On Mac OSX, it works
>>> to do this:
>>> df[df == "n/a"] <- NA
>>>
>>> However, it does not work on Ubuntu.  See below.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Garrett
>>>
>>> > x <- df[27, 4] # complete data.frame dput is below
>>> > dput(x)
>>> "n/a "
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> This string contains a no-break space, not a space.
>>
>>  "n/a " == "n/a\uA0"
>>
>>  [1] TRUE
>>
>>  "n/a\uA0"
>>
>>  [1] "n/a "
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Petr Savicky.
>>
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