>>>>> nospam@altfeld-im de <nos...@altfeld-im.de>
>>>>> on Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:45:59 +0100 writes:
> Dear R developers
> I think I have found a bug that can be reproduced with two lines of code
> and I am very thankful to get your first assessment or feed-back on my
> report.
> If this is the wrong mailing list or I did something wrong
> (e. g. semi "anonymous" email address to protect my privacy and defend
> unwanted spam) please let me know since I am new here.
> Thank you very much :-)
> J. Altfeld
Dear J.,
(yes, a bit less anonymity would be very welcomed here!),
You are right, this is a bug, at least in the documentation, but
probably "all real", indeed,
but read on.
> On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 18:25 +0100, nos...@altfeld-im.de wrote:
>>
>>
>> If I execute the code from the "?write.table" examples section
>>
>> x <- data.frame(a = I("a \" quote"), b = pi)
>> # (ommited code)
>> write.csv(x, file = "foo.csv", fileEncoding = "UTF-16LE")
>>
>> the resulting CSV file has a size of 6 bytes which is too short
>> (truncated):
>>
>> """,3
reproducibly, yes.
If you look at what write.csv does
and then simplify, you can get a similar wrong result by
write.table(x, file = "foo.tab", fileEncoding = "UTF-16LE")
which results in a file with one line
""" 3
and if you debug write.table() you see that its building blocks
here are
file <- file(........, encoding = fileEncoding)
a writeLines(*, file=file) for the column headers,
and then "deeper down" C code which I did not investigate.
But just looking a bit at such a file() object with writeLines()
seems slightly revealing, as e.g., 'eol' does not seem to
"work" for this encoding:
> fn <- tempfile("ffoo"); ff <- file(fn, open="w", encoding = "UTF-16LE")
> writeLines(LETTERS[3:1], ff); writeLines("|", ff); writeLines(">a", ff)
> close(ff)
> file.show(fn)
CBA|>
> file.size(fn)
[1] 5
>
>> The problem seems to be the iconv function:
>>
>> iconv("foo", to="UTF-16")
>>
>> produces
>>
>> Error in iconv("foo", to = "UTF-16"):
>> embedded nul in string: '\xff\xfef\0o\0o\0'
but this works
> iconv("foo", to="UTF-16", toRaw=TRUE)
[[1]]
[1] ff fe 66 00 6f 00 6f 00
(indeed showing the embedded '\0's)
>> In 2010 a (partial) patch for this problem was submitted:
>> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e10/devel/10/06/0648.html
the patch only related to the iconv() problem not allowing 'raw'
(instead of character) argument x.
... and it is > 5.5 years old, for an iconv() version that was less
featureful than today.
Rather, current iconv(x) allows x to be a list of raw entries.
>> Are there chances to fix this problem since it prevents writing Windows
>> UTF-16LE text files?
>>
>> PS: This problem can be reproduced on Windows and Linux.
indeed.... also on "R devel of today".
I agree it should be fixed... but as I said not by the patch you
mentioned.
Tested patches to fix this are welcome, indeed.
Martin Maechler
>> ---------------
>>
>> > sessionInfo()
>> R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10)
>> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>> Running under: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
>> LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>> LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
>> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
>> LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods
>> base
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] tools_3.2.3
>> >
>>
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