[R] can't open file

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 07/07/2010 9:16 AM, Sebastian Kruk wrote:
> I have a text file log2.log encoded Ansi in Windows.
>   

What Windows calls "Ansi" is called "latin1" in R.  You said the 
encoding was "UCS-2LE", which Windows calls "Unicode".  Part of your 
problem might be this mismatched encoding.  Have you tried using 
encoding="latin1" when you read the file?

Duncan Murdoch
> When I execute:
>
> out <- read.zoo(readLines(con <- file("log2.log",
> encoding="UCS-2LE")),FUN = as.chron)
>
> have errors:
>
> Error en file(file, "rt") : no se puede abrir la conexión
> Además: Mensajes de aviso perdidos
> 1: In file(file, "rt") :
>   sólo fue usado el primer elemento del argumento 'description'
> 2: In file(file, "rt") :
>   no fue posible abrir el archivo '#Software: Microsoft Internet
> Information Services 5.0': No such file or directory
>
> Why?
>
> Thks,
>
> Sebastián.
>
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