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blmurphy • 0
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Hi. I am following the Posting Guide and Support Site tutorial post but I am getting an issue which has an unclear solution? I pasted my text and output code as specified but it won't let me post and is highlighting my text box red. enter image description here

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It usually also says why not. Does it?

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Unfortunately no... I did just try to post with a more obvious error (no title) and for this it was specific error telling me my issue. But for what is above, nothing other than the red box. I saw another post note that certain characters may give this error, but I do not know what characters to look for.

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shepherl 4.1k
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Generally when this occurs its due to non-ASCII characters in the text that cannot be rendered.

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And when that has happened to me, I 'debug' by cutting chunks of text until the red goes away. High tech, I know.

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shepherl My text contains some parenthesis, A-Z, and 0-9, which are ASCII, so the error must be in my code... But I do not think any part of my code contains non-ASCII characters. 0-9, A-Z, and pretty much all other characters on my keyboard (US based) are part of ASCII, no? If I remove anything from my code it kind of defeats the purpose of my question... Any tips on how would I go about identifying non-ASCII characters?

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R's tools::showNonASCIIfile might be useful. Also somewhat unclear on what OS but sometimes the copy/paste of certain systems inserts so potential around your code if you copied from console

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Good to know. Appreciate the responses!

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