Dear all

I was trying the (fairly new) LaF package, and came across the following problem:

I opened a connection to a fixed width ASCII file using
laf_open_fwf(my.filename, my.column_types, my.column_widths, my.column_names)

When looking at the data, it turned out that \n (newline) and \r (carriage return) were considered as characters, thus destroying the structure in my data (the second column does not include any numbers):

> my.data[1565:1575,1:3]

   MF_FARZ1              Fahrzeugarttext MF_MARKE
1     \n043 Landwirt. Traktor                2140
2     \n043 Landwirt. Traktor                6206
3     \n001 Personenwagen                    2026
4     \n001 Personenwagen                    2026
5    \r\n00 1Personenwagen                    404
6    \r\n02 0Gesellschaftswagen               710
7    \r\n00 1Personenwagen                    505
8    \r\n00 1Personenwagen                    505
9    \r\n00 1Personenwagen                    301
10   \r\n00 1Personenwagen                    553
11   \r\n04 3Landwirt. Traktor                257

I am working on Windows 7 32-bit.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Best Regard

Christian Kamenik
Project Manager

Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications DETEC
Federal Roads Office FEDRO
Division Road Traffic
Road Accident Statistics

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Location: Weltpoststrasse 5, 3015 Bern

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