[Rd] Small mistake in ?raw
Martin Maechler
maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Wed Jun 8 13:01:17 CEST 2016
>>>>> Mikko Korpela <mikko.korpela at helsinki.fi>
>>>>> on Tue, 7 Jun 2016 12:41:54 +0300 writes:
> In ?raw (src/library/base/man/raw.Rd), the final line of Examples seems
> to be off:
>> isASCII("\x9c25.63") # false (in Latin-1, this is an amount in UK pounds)
> The character "\x9c" is a control character in Latin-1. Maybe the
> example should use "\xa3" instead:
>> iconv("\x9c25.63", from = "latin1")
> [1] "\u009c25.63"
>> iconv("\xa325.63", from = "latin1")
> [1] "£25.63"
Thank you, Mikko, I've confirmed what you say and changed the
comment (and also added a tiny bit more to the ex. section).
Martin
> --
> Mikko Korpela
> Department of Geosciences and Geography
> University of Helsinki
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