Re: [R] Diagnostic and helper functions for defective & hard-to-import files

2014-01-29 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
For Census data specifically you might want to look at the acs package. I learned about it from Ray DiGiacomo, Jr. r...@liondatasystems.com I am doing an R-oriented US Census webinar on August 29. See this site for the recording of the webinar. http://liondatasystems.com/rug.html I think you wi

Re: [R] Diagnostic and helper functions for defective & hard-to-import files

2014-01-29 Thread David Winsemius
On Jan 29, 2014, at 7:27 PM, Andrew Hoerner wrote: > Thanks, Duncan! > > I installed a hex viewer -- did not realize there was also one in R. > > I found the documentation for the individual showNonASCII and > showNonASCIIFile functions, but I could not find the usual package PDF. The > tools p

Re: [R] Diagnostic and helper functions for defective & hard-to-import files

2014-01-29 Thread Andrew Hoerner
Thanks, Duncan! I installed a hex viewer -- did not realize there was also one in R. I found the documentation for the individual showNonASCII and showNonASCIIFile functions, but I could not find the usual package PDF. The tools package does not seem to be listed on cran in the alphabetical list

Re: [R] Diagnostic and helper functions for defective & hard-to-import files

2014-01-29 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 14-01-28 11:43 PM, andrewH wrote:> Hi Folks! > I have been writing a small set of utilities for dealing with files that are > hard to open correctly for one reason or another, especially because they > are too big for memory, non-rectangular, or contain odd characters or > unexpected codings,

Re: [R] Diagnostic and helper functions for defective & hard-to-import files

2014-01-28 Thread andrewH
On Jan 28, 2014 at 8:56pm, David Winsemius wrote: On Jan 28, 2014, at 8:43 PM, andrewH wrote: > Hi Folks! > I have been writing a small set of utilities for dealing with files that > are > hard to open correctly for one reason or another, especially because they > are too big for memory, non-rect

Re: [R] Diagnostic and helper functions for defective & hard-to-import files

2014-01-28 Thread David Winsemius
On Jan 28, 2014, at 8:43 PM, andrewH wrote: > Hi Folks! > I have been writing a small set of utilities for dealing with files that are > hard to open correctly for one reason or another, especially because they > are too big for memory, non-rectangular, or contain odd characters or > unexpected c

[R] Diagnostic and helper functions for defective & hard-to-import files

2014-01-28 Thread andrewH
Hi Folks! I have been writing a small set of utilities for dealing with files that are hard to open correctly for one reason or another, especially because they are too big for memory, non-rectangular, or contain odd characters or unexpected codings, or all of these things together. Today it sudden