Hello Uwe 
I tried both the options you mentioned, but it didnt work. All i get as 
output then is the header line and the headers as "row.names" and "X." 

I am using R-Studio v0.98 






From:   Uwe Ligges <ligges@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
To:     Pavneet Arora/UK/RoyalSun@RoyalSun, r-help@r-project.org
Date:   19/04/2014 14:05
Subject:        Re: [R] Read.table mucks up headers





On 19.04.2014 14:30, starter wrote:
> Hello Milan
>
> It had worked perfectly before, but now I am trying on a different text 
file
> but using the trick you showed I just get the headers in the output and 
that
> too as "row.names" and "X".
>
> *code:*
> corr <- read.table("E:/temp/corrosion
> data.txt",header=T,fileEncoding="UTF-8-BOM")


Which R version?
Are you sure this is UTF-8-BOM and not "UCS-2LE" or "UTF-16LE"?

Best,
Uwe Ligges


>> dput(corr)
> structure(list(ï...Weight. = c(13.74, 12.97, 10.78, 10.53, 10.16,
> 9.38, 9.23, 9.2, 17.24, 18, 15.12, 16.08, 13.71, 13.81, 12.61,
> 14.03), Piece = c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L,
> 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L), Time = c(96L, 84L, 72L, 60L, 48L, 36L, 24L,
> 12L, 96L, 96L, 72L, 60L, 48L, 36L, 24L, 12L)), .Names = c("ï...Weight.",
> "Piece", "Time"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -16L
> ))
>
>> str(corr)
> 'data.frame':          16 obs. of  3 variables:
>   $ ï...Weight.: num  13.7 13 10.8 10.5 10.2 ...
>   $ Piece      : int  1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 ...
>   $ Time       : int  96 84 72 60 48 36 24 12 96 96 ...
>
> Please tell me what I am doing wrong.
>
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