[R] Trouble reading a UTF-16LE file

[Ebert,Timothy Aaron]

Dear R-help,
    I am having trouble reading a UTF-16LE formatted file. The issue appears to be a byte order mark at the beginning of the file. I have tried readLines(file, encoding='utf-16LE') but that got me 

[1]"\xff\xfe1"	""	""	""	""	""


This is a tab delimited text file, despite the ANA extension. It is created by a custom software program that interfaces with some specialized scientific equipment.

Thank you for your help.


Regards,
Tim