[R] Reading a txt file from internet

[Iris Simmons]

That looks like a UTF-16LE byte order mark. Simply open the connection
with the proper encoding:

read.delim(
    'https://online.stat.psu.edu/onlinecourses/sites/stat501/files/ch15/employee.txt',
    fileEncoding = "UTF-16LE"
)

On Sat, Sep 7, 2024 at 3:57 PM Christofer Bogaso
<bogaso.christofer using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to the data from
> https://online.stat.psu.edu/onlinecourses/sites/stat501/files/ch15/employee.txt
> without any success. Below is the error I am getting:
>
> > read.delim('https://online.stat.psu.edu/onlinecourses/sites/stat501/files/ch15/employee.txt')
>
> Error in make.names(col.names, unique = TRUE) :
>
>   invalid multibyte string at '<ff><fe>t'
>
> In addition: Warning messages:
>
> 1: In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote,  :
>
>   line 1 appears to contain embedded nulls
>
> 2: In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote,  :
>
>   line 2 appears to contain embedded nulls
>
> 3: In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote,  :
>
>   line 3 appears to contain embedded nulls
>
> 4: In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote,  :
>
>   line 4 appears to contain embedded nulls
>
> 5: In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote,  :
>
>   line 5 appears to contain embedded nulls
>
> Is there any way to read this data directly onto R?
>
> Thanks for your time
>
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