[Rd] download.file does not process gz files correctly (truncates them?)

[Joris Meys]

I can confirm that Excel does all kind of strange things when opening a csv
file and saving it from Excel, including adding unnecessarily another set
of quotes around already qouted text fields. But I never had problems with
Excel not getting linux-type line endings correctly. I'll see if I can make
Excel mess it up, but given the amount of excel crap I had to endure over
the years, I'd be surprised if I missed such behaviour until now.

Cheers
Joris

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 3:09 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:

> There was a hint in the Twitterverse that Excel has issues with line
> endings in .csv. Can anyone elaborate on that? Then again, Excel goes
> belly-up on comma separators in central European locales anyway...
>
> -pd
>
> > On 8 May 2018, at 22:47 , Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Also note that MS just announced support for unix line endings in notepad
> >
> > https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/05/08/
> extended-eol-in-notepad/
> >
> > Hadley
> >
>
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