On 11/08/2012 02:51 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On 08/11/2012 07:11, Lee Hachadoorian wrote:
I have a large (105MB) data file, tab-delimited with a header. There are
some odd characters at the beginning of the file that are preventing it
from being read by R.
That is a BOM make in UCS-2 encoding. Was this file created on Windows?
It so try using iconv to convert it to UTF-8, or in R use
read.delim(filename, fileEncoding = "UCS-2LE")
Perfect. I tried it both ways, and both iconv and the fileEncoding
parameter did the trick.
As far as I know the file (which was provided by a public agency) was
created in Windows.
Thanks,
--Lee
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Lee Hachadoorian
Assistant Professor in Geography, Dartmouth College
http://freecity.commons.gc.cuny.edu
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