It would be helpful if you showed your commands and printed outputs, copied directly from your R session, from the beginning to the end. I put the call to sessionInfo() in my message because it is probably relevant. It is nice to completely include the original email when responding to it so others can see the whole story in one place.
Bill Dunlap Spotfire, TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Sam Steingold [mailto:sam.steing...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Sam > Steingold > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 1:18 PM > To: William Dunlap > Cc: peter dalgaard; r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] cannot read iso639 table > > > * 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". > > > -- > Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) X > 11.0.11103000 > http://www.childpsy.net/ http://thereligionofpeace.com > http://mideasttruth.com http://iris.org.il http://jihadwatch.org > The only thing worse than X Windows: (X Windows) - X ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
