[Rd] Bug Report: read.table with UTF-8 encoded file imports infinity symbol as Integer 8

Bug Using read.table(file, encoding="UTF-8") to import a UTF-8 encoded file containing the infinity symbol (' ∞ ') results in the infinity symbol imported as the number 8. Other Unicode characters seem unaffected, example, Zhe: ж Expected Behavior: The imported data.frame should represent the infi

Re: [Rd] Bug Report: read.table with UTF-8 encoded file imports infinity symbol as Integer 8

vel, R-patched). So probably Windows specific. > > -pd > > > On 7 Feb 2019, at 11:17 , David Byrne wrote: > > > > Bug > > Using read.table(file, encoding="UTF-8") to import a UTF-8 encoded > > file containing the infinity symbol (' ∞ ') results