> * William Dunlap <jqha...@gvopb.pbz> [2012-09-13 19:50:21 +0000]:
>
> On Windows with R-2.15.1 in a 1252 locale, I had to read (and toss) out
> the initial 3 bytes (the byte-order mark?) to make things work:
>
> > socket <-
> >
> url("http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ISO-639-2_utf-8.txt",open="r",encoding="utf-8";)
> > readChar(socket, nchars=3, useBytes=TRUE)
> [1] ""
confirmed - first 3 bytes are "\357\273\277"
> > d <- read.table(socket, quote="", sep="|", stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
> > dim(d)
> [1] 485 5
> > head(d)
> V1 V2 V3 V4 V5
> 1 aar aa Afar afar
> 2 abk ab Abkhazian abkhaze
> 3 ace Achinese aceh
> 4 ach Acoli acoli
> 5 ada Adangme adangme
> 6 ady Adyghe; Adygei adyghé
alas, this is all I get:
Warning message:
In scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, :
invalid input found on input connection
'http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ISO-639-2_utf-8.txt'
a3bibliographic a3terminologic a2 english french
1 aar NA aa Afar afar
2 abk NA ab Abkhazian abkhaze
3 ace NA Achinese aceh
4 ach NA Acoli acoli
5 ada NA Adangme adangme
6 ady NA Adyghe; Adygei adygh
note that the first non-ASCII character terminates the input.
so, I still cannot read the data from the URL.
I can read the file though - with quote="" (thanks Peter!) -
except that the first record is "\357\273\277aar".
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