trimws bug? leading whitespace not removed

Question

Edit: Thanks to R Yoda, I was finally able to create a reproducible example to the issue I am facing:

x = rawToCha         


        

Answer 1

A possible solution is replace the wrongly encoded spaces with the right ones:

trimws(rawToChar(replace(x1, x1 == as.raw(0xa0), as.raw(0x20))))

which gives:

[1] "11.132592"

For conversion to numeric, just wrap above code in as.numeric.

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Used data:

x1 <- as.raw(c(0xa0, 0x31, 0x31, 0x2e, 0x31, 0x33, 0x32, 0x35, 0x39, 0x32))