Ha, the proper answer! Thanks for this, Iris. I followed up by consulting the Wikipedia "byte order mark" entry and learned something I knew nothing about.
FWIW, if I had simply searched on <ff><fe>t it would have immediately led me to BOMs. Best, Bert On Sat, Sep 7, 2024 at 1:30 PM Iris Simmons <ikwsi...@gmail.com> wrote: > That looks like a UTF-16LE byte order mark. Simply open the connection > with the proper encoding: > > read.delim( > ' > https://online.stat.psu.edu/onlinecourses/sites/stat501/files/ch15/employee.txt > ', > fileEncoding = "UTF-16LE" > ) > > On Sat, Sep 7, 2024 at 3:57 PM Christofer Bogaso > <bogaso.christo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
