On Tue, 27 Sep 2022, Stephen H. Dawson, DSL via R-help writes: > Hi All, > > > I am writing with a question about choosing the line > ending aspect of a file, please. > > I use write.csv and write.table to export work to CSV > files and TXT files. I am planning now on how to share > my work with the Windows crowd beyond only sharing with > the Linux crowd. I use my text editor to flip the line > ending option from Linux to Windows after > exporting. This is inefficient for me to accomplish if > I ramp up production as I expect will occur. > > Staying with the character encoding of UTF-8 seems fine > for now from what I understand I need to deliver to my > customers. > > What seems more efficient to me is to learn how to use > R to define the line ending aspect of the exported > file. I have not found if this is an option within R. > > QUESTION > Is it possible within R to define the line ending aspect of file output? > > > Kindest Regards,
Just a remark: there is a "standard" for CSV, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4180. It always requires CRLF as the line ending. -- Enrico Schumann Lucerne, Switzerland http://enricoschumann.net ______________________________________________ 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.
