On Mar 3, 2010, at 2:22 PM, jonas garcia wrote:
Dear R users,
I am trying to read a huge file in R. For some reason, only a part
of the
file is read. When I further investigated, I found that in one of my
non-numeric columns, there is one odd character responsible for
this, which
I reproduce bellow:
In case you cannot see it, it looks like a right arrow, but it is
not the
one you get from microsoft word in menu "insert symbol".
I think my dat file is broken and that funny character is an EOL
marker that
makes R not read the rest of the file. I am sure the character is
there by
chance but I fear that it might be present in some other big files I
have to
work with as well. So, is there any clever way to remove this
inconvenient
character in R avoiding having to edit the file in notepad and
remove it
manually?
Code I am using:
read.csv("new3.dat", header=F)
Warning message:
In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote =
quote, :
incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'new3.dat'
I think you should identify the offending line by using the
count.fields function and fix it with an editor.
--
David
I am working with R 2.10.1 in windows XP.
Thanks in advance
Jonas
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