Error in parse: Unexpected input

[Luke]

Hello,

I am trying to run several CFAs with lavaan, but I keep getting the same error appear. I am sure that it is something simple, but I lack the coding knowledge to fully understand the error:

Error in parse(text = x, keep.source = FALSE) : 

  <text>:1:2: unexpected input

1: ~ ‚

       ^

An example of the specified model is as follows:

> Performance <- '

TaskPurpose =~ P2+P5+P7


HigherPurpose =~ P1+P9+P10


Attention =~ A1+A2+A3+A4+A5+A6+A7+A10


Recognition =~ R2+R4+R5+R6+R8+R10


JobRole =~ G4+G5+G6


DevelopmentOpp =~ G1+G2+G7+G8+G9


TaskChallenge =~ CA1+CA3+CA4


CareerGoals =~ CA5+CA6+CA7+CA8+CA9


Grit =~ C1+C2+C3+C4+C5+C6+C9'

> Fit <- cfa(Performance, data = MGData)

Do you have any suggestions as to why this error might keep appearing?

Thanks!

[Yves Rosseel]

When I copy-pasted your model syntax, I got problems too:

Error in parse(text = x, keep.source = FALSE) :

<text>:1:10: unexpected input
1: ~ P2+P5+P7â

It would seem your syntax contains a few non-visible characters
(typically at the end of the line). I had too remove them, and then
everything ran fine. This is the cleaned-up version:

Performance <- '
TaskPurpose =~ P2+P5+P7
HigherPurpose =~ P1+P9+P10
Attention =~ A1+A2+A3+A4+A5+A6+A7+A10
Recognition =~ R2+R4+R5+R6+R8+R10
JobRole =~ G4+G5+G6
DevelopmentOpp =~ G1+G2+G7+G8+G9
TaskChallenge =~ CA1+CA3+CA4
CareerGoals =~ CA5+CA6+CA7+CA8+CA9
Grit =~ C1+C2+C3+C4+C5+C6+C9'

lavParseModelString(Performance, as.data.frame = TRUE)

Yves.

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