Dear all,
I've been using R on a Mac to process some data for export to ArcMap GIS (which
only runs on Windows). ArcMap seems to require tab-delimited data (my data are
in 3 columns), so I've been using the sep="\t" argument. However, this resulted
in strange end-of-line characters when displayed on a PC. I looked in the
write.table help file to find that eol="\r\n" can be used to get around this
problem, and it does indeed prevent these unwanted characters from appearing.
However, the data still aren't properly recognised by ArcMap when created on a
Mac (the exact same code works fine from a PC). In ArcMap, when I select
'Display XY Data', the X (Longitude) and Y (Latitude) columns aren't available
to select. It's as if Arc isn't correctly interpreting the output from R - this
is despite me using col.names=TRUE in the write.table command.
Any light shed on this will be very gratefully received.
Many thanks for your help,
Steve
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