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Finding non-ASCII characters in R code using R

2 messages · Mark Heckmann, Brian Ripley

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During R CMD check I get the following note:

* checking data for non-ASCII characters ... NOTE
  Note: found 9 marked UTF-8 string(s)

How can I search my code files for non ASCII chars using R?

Thanks,
Mark
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See 'Writing R Extensions' ...

'Function showNonASCII in package tools can help in finding non-ASCII 
bytes in files.'
On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Mark Heckmann wrote: