On Sun, 08 Sep 2024, Christofer Bogaso writes: > Hi, > > I am trying to the data from > https://online.stat.psu.edu/onlinecourses/sites/stat501/files/ch15/employee.txt > without any success. Below is the error I am getting: > >> read.delim('https://online.stat.psu.edu/onlinecourses/sites/stat501/files/ch15/employee.txt') > > Error in make.names(col.names, unique = TRUE) : > > invalid multibyte string at '<ff><fe>t' > > In addition: Warning messages: > > 1: In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote, : > > line 1 appears to contain embedded nulls > > 2: In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote, : > > line 2 appears to contain embedded nulls > > 3: In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote, : > > line 3 appears to contain embedded nulls > > 4: In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote, : > > line 4 appears to contain embedded nulls > > 5: In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote, : > > line 5 appears to contain embedded nulls > > Is there any way to read this data directly onto R? > > Thanks for your time >
The <ff><fe> looks like a byte-order mark (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark). Try this: fn <- file('https://online.stat.psu.edu/onlinecourses/sites/stat501/files/ch15/employee.txt', encoding = "UTF-16LE") read.delim(fn) -- Enrico Schumann Lucerne, Switzerland https://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 https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
