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2010 Feb 12
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Identifying special characters in a text file
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R 2.10.1 on a Mac
I read in textfiles using readLines, then I process those files, then I use R to execute another program. Occasionally those files contain characters other than letter / numbers / routine punctuation marks. For example, a bullet (option-8 on a Mac) triggers the problem.
Although R can read and process those characters, the other program cannot so I would like to