| showNonASCII {tools} | R Documentation |
This function prints elements of a character vector which contain non-ASCII bytes, printing such bytes as a escape like <fc>.
showNonASCII(x) showNonASCIIfile(file)
x |
a character vector. |
file |
path to a file. |
This was originally written to help detect non-portable text in files in packages.
It prints all element of x which contain non-ASCII characters,
preceded by the element number and with non-ASCII bytes highlighted
via iconv(sub = "byte").
The elements of x containing non-ASCII characters will be returned
invisibly.
out <- c(
"fa\xE7ile test of showNonASCII():",
"\\details{",
" This is a good line",
" This has an \xfcmlaut in it.",
" OK again.",
"}")
f <- tempfile()
cat(out, file = f, sep = "\n")
showNonASCIIfile(f)
unlink(f)