[R] Degree symbol

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>> Thank you
>> I will experiment with source (looks to be source(file,
>> encoding=getOption("latin1" or "UTF-8")).
>
> No, getOption("encoding") is the literal default, not some sort of general
> form.  You want
>
> encoding="latin1"
>
> (assuming the whole file uses that encoding).
>
> Duncan Murdoch
 Sorry, thank you (this is a mixture of misunderstanding and lazy
cutting and pasting by me).