Dear all I was trying the (fairly new) LaF package, and came across the following problem:
I opened a connection to a fixed width ASCII file using laf_open_fwf(my.filename, my.column_types, my.column_widths, my.column_names) When looking at the data, it turned out that \n (newline) and \r (carriage return) were considered as characters, thus destroying the structure in my data (the second column does not include any numbers): > my.data[1565:1575,1:3] MF_FARZ1 Fahrzeugarttext MF_MARKE 1 \n043 Landwirt. Traktor 2140 2 \n043 Landwirt. Traktor 6206 3 \n001 Personenwagen 2026 4 \n001 Personenwagen 2026 5 \r\n00 1Personenwagen 404 6 \r\n02 0Gesellschaftswagen 710 7 \r\n00 1Personenwagen 505 8 \r\n00 1Personenwagen 505 9 \r\n00 1Personenwagen 301 10 \r\n00 1Personenwagen 553 11 \r\n04 3Landwirt. Traktor 257 I am working on Windows 7 32-bit. Any help would be highly appreciated. Best Regard Christian Kamenik Project Manager Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications DETEC Federal Roads Office FEDRO Division Road Traffic Road Accident Statistics Mailing Address: 3003 Bern Location: Weltpoststrasse 5, 3015 Bern Tel +41 31 323 14 89 Fax +41 31 323 43 21 christian.kame...@astra.admin.ch<mailto:christian.kame...@astra.admin.ch> www.astra.admin.ch<http://www.astra.admin.ch/> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
