Re: [R] Read txt File contains character ""

[peter dalgaard]

On Jun 5, 2012, at 08:42 , climmi wrote:

> Thank you !  Rui Barradas .
> 
> Yes, the arrow character "" can not be recoginised by R. 
> the character will be treat as a stop command...
> So I replace all the character "" with space, then it works..
> Just want to know is there any way for R to handle it.

To paraphrase Brian, you're likely the victim of your unstated operating system...

Hex 1a is ctr-Z, alias the end-of-file marker, which dates back from CP/M times and was never excised from the various Microsoft OS. R can't handle it because the OS is telling it that the file has ended. 

Opening the file in binary mode (?file) might help, but as I'm not on Windows, I can't easily check for you.

> 
> Not sure does eveybody able to view the character, it's looks like this. 
> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4632369/arrow.png 

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