Le samedi 31 décembre 2011 à 07:05 -0800, Dennis Fisher a écrit : > R version: 2.13.1 > OS X > > Colleagues, > > I am working with a CSV file; for testing purposes, I created an XLS version > of the file. > When I read these files using read.xls (gdata) or read.csv, I encounter an > error: > Error in type.convert(data[[i]], as.is = as.is[i], dec = dec, > na.strings = character(0L)) : > invalid multibyte string at '<b0>C' > The error occurs whether or not I invoke the "as.is" option of read.csv. Please provide the output of sessionInfo(). I know that on OS X JGR often (always?) gets the locale wrong, which leads to bugs when importing any non-ASCII character strings. That's maybe what you're experiencing. Have you tried with the default R GUI?
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