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I uploaded text to the fourth column for a topic model, but instead of text, this symbol is showing. When I hover over it, I can read the text; however, I want to make sure this symbol won't misguide my structural topic model analysis.

Thank you!

Gregor Thomas
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  • What exactly is this a picture of? Its better to share your data in a [reproducible format](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example) such as `dput()` so we can see what exactly is in there. – MrFlick Mar 31 '22 at 19:45
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    This might be an RStudio-thing, since R itself doesn't have GUIs (with alternating row-banding) like that, in which case I suggest the [tag:rstudio] tag would be appropriate. However, it could be a number of things including unicode (if in data). I'm not familiar with `stm` objects (I know they exist, I don't work with them) and I don't use RStudio, so hopefully somebody else with experience in both will "know" what it is without a reproducible example. – r2evans Mar 31 '22 at 19:51
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    @r2evans is right - this is the RStudio Data Viewer, called by `View()` or by clicking on the dataset name in the Environment tab. Never seen that icon, though. @md_14 , what's the data type for that column? `class($)` – Andrea M Mar 31 '22 at 19:57
  • @AndreaM -Yes this is an RStudio Data viewer. The data type is a character. It's just odd because I've never seen this icon either. – md_14 Mar 31 '22 at 20:15
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    could you run `str()` and see what it says? (Similar to @AndreaM's comment ...) – Ben Bolker Mar 31 '22 at 21:52
  • I just ran the topic model without issue. I think this symbol suggests that the cell contains a large text (e.g., pages of words). Thank you all for your help! – md_14 Apr 01 '22 at 21:16

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I just ran the topic model without issue. I think this symbol suggests that the cell contains a large text (e.g., pages of words). Thank you all for your help!

md_14
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    This is useful, but it would be great if the answer could be enhanced with a pointer to some documentation somewhere (if it exists). – Ben Bolker Apr 12 '22 at 14:35