R: Pick Out Non-ASCII Characters

showNonASCII {tools} | R Documentation

## Pick Out Non-ASCII Characters

### Description

This function prints elements of a character vector which contain non-ASCII bytes, printing such bytes as a escape like <fc>.

### Usage

    showNonASCII(x)

    showNonASCIIfile(file)

### Arguments

`x` | a character vector.
`file` | path to a file.

### Details

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")`.

### Value

The elements of `x` containing non-ASCII characters will be returned invisibly.

### Examples

    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)

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