The tab format seems to read in with no problem. On Thu, 22 Apr 2021 at 23:08, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 22/04/2021 9:25 p.m., Spencer Graves wrote: > > Hello: > > > > > > What if anything should I do regarding notes from either "load" or > > "attach" that, "input string ... cannot be translated to UTF-8, is it > > valid in 'ANSI_X3.4-1968'?"? > > First, ANSI_X3.4-1968 is an official name for for a version of Ascii. > It appears in the file near the start, where I believe it records the > native encoding in place when the file was written, so readers using a > different encoding can translate. > > Your actual file appears to have been encoded in UTF-8, but not marked > as such. You're lucky you read it on macOS, where UTF-8 is the native > encoding, since the reader probably recognized the bytes weren't ascii > bytes (and warned you about that), then just left them alone. If you > read that file on Windows you'd likely get junk for those entries. > > For your interest, here's a dump of the start of your file, after > gunzipping it: > > 00000000 52 44 58 33 0a 58 0a 00 00 00 03 00 03 06 00 00 > |RDX3.X..........| > 00000010 03 05 00 00 00 00 0e 41 4e 53 49 5f 58 33 2e 34 > |.......ANSI_X3.4| > 00000020 2d 31 39 36 38 00 00 04 02 00 00 00 01 00 04 00 > |-1968...........| > 00000030 09 00 00 00 01 78 00 00 03 13 00 00 00 10 00 00 > |.....x..........| > 00000040 02 0e 00 00 02 6e 40 90 0c 00 00 00 00 00 40 90 > |.....n@.......@.| > 00000050 44 00 00 00 00 00 40 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 7c > |D.....@.......@|| > > Duncan Murdoch > > > > > > > I'm running R 4.0.5 under macOS 11.2.3; see "sessionInfo()" and > > detailed instructions below on the precise file I dowloaded from the web > > and tried to read. > > > > > > I may be able to get what I want just ignoring this. However, I'd > > like to know how to fix this. > > > > > > Thanks, > > Spencer Graves > > > > > > sessionInfo() > > R version 4.0.5 (2021-03-31) > > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit) > > Running under: macOS Big Sur 10.16 > > > > Matrix products: default > > LAPACK: > > /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib > > > > locale: > > [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 > > > > attached base packages: > > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > > [1] compiler_4.0.5 htmltools_0.5.1.1 tools_4.0.5 yaml_2.2.1 > > > > [5] tinytex_0.31 rmarkdown_2.7 knitr_1.31 > > digest_0.6.27 > > [9] xfun_0.22 rlang_0.4.10 evaluate_0.14 > > > search() > > [1] ".GlobalEnv" "file:NAVCO 1.3 List.RData" > > [3] "file:NAVCO 1.3 List.RData" "tools:rstudio" > > [5] "package:stats" "package:graphics" > > [7] "package:grDevices" "package:utils" > > [9] "package:datasets" "package:methods" > > [11] "Autoloads" "package:base" > > > > > > *** To get the file I used for this, I went to > > "https://www.ericachenoweth.com/research";. From there I clicked > > "Version 1.3". This took me to > > > > > > https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/ON9XND > > > > > > I then clicked the "Download" icon to the right of "NAVCO 1.3 List.tab". > > This gave me 5 "Download Options", one of which was "RData Format"; I > > selected that. This downloaded "NAVCO 1.3 List.RData", which I moved to > > getwd(). Then I did 'load("NAVCO 1.3 List.RData")' and 'attach("NAVCO > > 1.3 List.RData")'. Both of those gave me 8 repetitions of a message > > like "input string ... cannot be translated to UTF-8, is it valid in > > 'ANSI_X3.4-1968'?" with different values substituted for "...". > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > 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. > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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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