[R] Read data in R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, jim holtman wrote:

> I sounds as if your data is encode as UTF-8.  You may need to specify
> the fileEncoding parameter on the read.table function.

Not UTF-8 ...  that's a BOM mark in UCS-2.   We don't have the 
sessionInfo() output that we asked for and this is an area where OSes 
do differ.   However, try fileEncoding = "UCS-2LE".

>
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Allie818 <alice.ly at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have a txt file with column data separated by commas.
>>
>> Subject,Sessionblock,LotteryImg,SubjectResp,Pictime,Bidtime,Voltage,ForcedAns
>> 10816,Session1,75_C2.jpg,No,7095,9548,Mid,Yes
>> 10816,Session1,25_C1.jpg,No,16629,18130,Low,Yes
>> 10816,Session1,5_C1.jpg,No,23217,24276,Low,Yes
>> 10816,Session1,75_C1.jpg,NULL,36359,-66179,Low,Yes
>> 10816,Session1,25_C2.jpg,NULL,49468,-66179,Mid,Yes
>> 10816,Session1,75_C3.jpg,Yes,60602,62119,High,Yes
>>
>> I have tried to read the data with this command
>> data<-read.table("/mrdata/embodied_val/data/Conditioning_TIM4_082310.txt",sep
>> = ",",header=T)
>>
>> but I get this error
>> Error in make.names(col.names, unique = TRUE) :
>>  invalid multibyte string at '<ff><fe>C'
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alice
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