Re: [R] Strange space characters in character strings

Hello J.R.M. Hosking, charToRaw() works perfectly, thank you: > charToRaw(as.character(moose[1, "V3"])) [1] 24 38 38 30 2c 33 37 30 c2 a0 gsub("[[:space:]]", "", ...) did not remove them, but now I know what they are (hex: c2 a0) I can remove them with gsub() by: > gsub("[$,\xc2\xa0]", "", as.

Re: [R] Strange space characters in character strings

On 2010-08-23 11:03, Mark Breman wrote: Hello everyone, I am reading a HTML table from a website with readHTMLTable() from the XML package: library(XML) moose = readHTMLTable("http://www.decisionmoose.com/Moosistory.html";, header=FALSE, skip.rows=c(1,2), trim=TRUE)[[1]] moose

[R] Strange space characters in character strings

Hello everyone, I am reading a HTML table from a website with readHTMLTable() from the XML package: > library(XML) > moose = readHTMLTable("http://www.decisionmoose.com/Moosistory.html";, header=FALSE, skip.rows=c(1,2), trim=TRUE)[[1]] > moose V1