Hello,
To use the octal code works with me.
# I've created a file with that byte only.
x <- readLines("ascii0178")
y <- c(as.character(1:4), x, as.character(6:10))
y
grep("\262", y) # should return 5
gsub("\262", "HERE", y)
Hope this helps,
Rui Barradas
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