I sounds as if your data is encode as UTF-8. You may need to specify
the fileEncoding parameter on the read.table function.
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Allie818 <alice...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a txt file with column data separated by commas.
>
> Subject,Sessionblock,LotteryImg,SubjectResp,Pictime,Bidtime,Voltage,ForcedAns
> 10816,Session1,75_C2.jpg,No,7095,9548,Mid,Yes
> 10816,Session1,25_C1.jpg,No,16629,18130,Low,Yes
> 10816,Session1,5_C1.jpg,No,23217,24276,Low,Yes
> 10816,Session1,75_C1.jpg,NULL,36359,-66179,Low,Yes
> 10816,Session1,25_C2.jpg,NULL,49468,-66179,Mid,Yes
> 10816,Session1,75_C3.jpg,Yes,60602,62119,High,Yes
>
> I have tried to read the data with this command
> data<-read.table("/mrdata/embodied_val/data/Conditioning_TIM4_082310.txt",sep
> = ",",header=T)
>
> but I get this error
> Error in make.names(col.names, unique = TRUE) :
> invalid multibyte string at '<ff><fe>C'
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Alice
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