Re: [R] Multibyte strings

2015-09-26 Thread Dennis Fisher
Peter Thanks for the explanation. One further comment — you wrote: > I don't think the FDA "requests" XPT files In fact, they do make such a request. Here is the actual language received this week (and repeatedly in the past): > Program/script files should be submitted using text files (*.TXT

Re: [R] Multibyte strings

2015-09-26 Thread peter dalgaard
Dennis, The invalid multibyte issue is almost certainly a symptom of being in a UTF-8 locale and trying to handle strings that aren't in UTF-8. (UTF uses particular 8 bit patterns to say that the following k bytes contain a Unicode value outside ASCII, other "8 bit ASCII" encodings, like Latin-

Re: [R] Multibyte strings

2015-09-25 Thread David Winsemius
On Sep 25, 2015, at 2:23 PM, Dennis Fisher wrote: > R 3.2.0 > OS X > > Colleagues, > > Earlier today, I initiated a series of emails regarding SASxport (which was > removed from CRAN). David Winsemius proposed downloading the source code and > installing with the following command: >

[R] Multibyte strings

2015-09-25 Thread Dennis Fisher
R 3.2.0 OS X Colleagues, Earlier today, I initiated a series of emails regarding SASxport (which was removed from CRAN). David Winsemius proposed downloading the source code and installing with the following command: install.packages('~/Downloads/SASxport_1.5.0.tar.gz', repos = NULL ,