[R] Summary re: read.table on Mac OS 10

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, David R. Bickel wrote:
>
> > I am having the same problem (#3) with read.table on Darwin. The edit()
> > function is not a work-around for me since I have to read an enormous
> > text file. I tried copying the data from TextEdit and pasting it into vi
> > and Project Builder, but that didn't help at all. I wonder if this is
> > related to the MacOS convention of ending lines with "\l" instead of
> > "\n".
>
> It's CR (ctrl-J, \r) as far as I know.

(ctrl-M: this mail got sent in the middle of editing when my line went
down ....)

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