[Rd] (PR#14012)

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Even though its not hard to convert files, I think it would be better
if R could directly handle different line endings since R tends to be
used in a cross platform way and its common to have files of different
line endings that originated from different systems.

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Seth Falcon <seth at userprimary.net> wrote:
> * On 2009-10-16 at 15:00 +0200 sje30 at damtp.cam.ac.uk wrote:
>> I think Rscript has a problem running files that have mac encodings
>> for newline (^M rather than ^J on linux).  If I source the file within
>> R, it works okay:
>
>> > source('j.R')
>> [1] "MEA_data/sernagor_new/CRX_P7_1.txt"
>>
>> But if I run the file using Rscript on a linux box I get a strange
>> error message:
>>
>> $ Rscript --vanilla j.R
>> "
>> Execution halted
>
> I think you are right that Rscript is unhappy to handle files with CR
> line terminators.  But IIUC, the purpose of Rscript is to enable R
> script execution on unix-like systems like:
>
>   #!/path/to/Rscript --vanilla
>   print(1:10)
>
> So then I'm not sure how useful it is for Rscript to handle such
> files.  Why not convert to a more common and portable line termination
> for your R script files?
>
>
> + seth
>
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