[ESS] unexpected character when evaling a region

[Balint Tamasi]

It turned out that the problem was completely unrelated to ESS or Emacs. It
was the result of the strange behaviour of a special keyboard layout.
Sorry about the confusion.

Balint

On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 9:55 PM Balint Tamasi <balint.tamasi using uzh.ch> wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> No, I didn't copy/paste the code, I typed it in a newly opened file. These
> UTF8 codes (I only encountered the nonbreaking space) usually (not always)
> show up after equation signs but I've also seen them after slashes.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Balint
>
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 9:19 PM Alex Branham <alex.branham using gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed 09 Oct 2019 at 15:19, Balint Tamasi via ESS-help <
>> ess-help using r-project.org> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm trying to set up ESS on a Linux laptop, which worked perfectly on my
>> > Macbook. When I work on a .R file and try to send code to a running R
>> > process with ess-eval-region in some cases whitespaces are substituted
>> with
>> > '\302' which results in errors.
>> >
>> > For example if I type
>> >
>> > fit <- lm(dist ~ speed, data = cars)
>> >
>> > and hit C-c C-j, I get
>> >
>> >> fit <- lm(dist ~ speed, data = cars)
>> > Error: unexpected input in "fit <- lm(dist ~ speed, data =\302"
>> >
>> > But if I go back to the .R file, delete the space after the =, add it
>> > again, and evaluate the line (which is seemingly the same as in the
>> > previous case), the error goes away.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions or ideas are appreciated
>>
>> \302 is a nonbreaking space, I think (this character: ). Did you
>> copy/paste that code from the internet? If so you might need to go
>> through and remove the UTF8 codes like that.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>

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