Thank you ! Rui Barradas . Yes, the arrow character "" can not be recoginised by R. the character will be treat as a stop command... So I replace all the character "" with space, then it works.. Just want to know is there any way for R to handle it.
Not sure does eveybody able to view the character, it's looks like this. http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n4632369/arrow.png -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Read-txt-File-contains-character-tp4632286p4632369.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.