[R] Problem with read.table in Windows and Linux

[Uwe Ligges]

Carlos Morales wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to open the same file under Linux and Windows. Under Windows everything is ok but when I try to do it under Linux I have a mistake and I don't know why. This is the mistake:
> 
> Error in make.names(col.names,unique=TRUE):
> string multibyte 1 invalid

Your system guesses a different encoding than the file is in fact, I 
guess...

Uwe Ligges


> 
> why?
> 
> I write this when I want to do it under Windows: zz.info<-read.table(file("C:/Documents and Settings/Administrador/Desktop/carlos/aCGH/aCGH/examples/Anal_sin_norm_1Mb86_Segmentos3.txt","r+"),header=TRUE,sep="\t",dec=".")
>  
> and under Linux:
>  
> zz.info<-read.table(file("/home/carlos/Desktop/Anal_sin_norm_1Mb86_Segmentos3.txt","r+"),header=TRUE,sep="\t",dec=".")
>  
> Why do I have problems under Linux?. If you need the text file tell me it.
>  
>  
> Thanks so much for your help
>  
> Carlos
> 
> 
> 
> 
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