When you specify LE in the encoding type, you are logically telling the decoder that you know the two-byte pairs are in little-endian order... which could override whatever the byte-order-mark was indicating. If the BOM indicated big-endian then the file decoding would break. If there is a BOM, don't override it unless you have to (e.g. for a wrong BOM)... leave off the LE unless you really need it.
On September 7, 2024 1:22:23 PM PDT, Enrico Schumann <e...@enricoschumann.net> wrote: >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) > -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ 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.
