Dear R users,

I am trying to read a huge file in R. For some reason, only a part of the
file is read. When I further investigated, I found that in one of my
non-numeric columns, there is one odd character responsible for this, which
I reproduce bellow:

In case you cannot see it, it looks like a right arrow, but it is not the
one you get from microsoft word in menu "insert symbol".

I think my dat file is broken and that funny character is an EOL marker that
makes R not read the rest of the file. I am sure the character is there by
chance but I fear that it might be present in some other big files I have to
work with as well. So, is there any clever way to remove this inconvenient
character in R avoiding having to edit the file in notepad and remove it
manually?

 Code I am using:

read.csv("new3.dat", header=F)

Warning message:
In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote,  :
  incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'new3.dat'

I am working with R 2.10.1 in windows XP.

Thanks in advance

Jonas

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