On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, jim holtman wrote:
I sounds as if your data is encode as UTF-8. You may need to specify the fileEncoding parameter on the read.table function.
Not UTF-8 ... that's a BOM mark in UCS-2. We don't have the sessionInfo() output that we asked for and this is an area where OSes do differ. However, try fileEncoding = "UCS-2LE".
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Allie818 <alice...@gmail.com> wrote:I have a txt file with column data separated by commas. Subject,Sessionblock,LotteryImg,SubjectResp,Pictime,Bidtime,Voltage,ForcedAns 10816,Session1,75_C2.jpg,No,7095,9548,Mid,Yes 10816,Session1,25_C1.jpg,No,16629,18130,Low,Yes 10816,Session1,5_C1.jpg,No,23217,24276,Low,Yes 10816,Session1,75_C1.jpg,NULL,36359,-66179,Low,Yes 10816,Session1,25_C2.jpg,NULL,49468,-66179,Mid,Yes 10816,Session1,75_C3.jpg,Yes,60602,62119,High,Yes I have tried to read the data with this command data<-read.table("/mrdata/embodied_val/data/Conditioning_TIM4_082310.txt",sep = ",",header=T) but I get this error Error in make.names(col.names, unique = TRUE) : invalid multibyte string at '<ff><fe>C' What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Alice -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Read-data-in-R-tp2336018p2336018.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.-- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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