Re: [R] sqldf file specification, non-ASCII

2008-04-03 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
nk you again for your help. > Peter. > > > -Original Message- > From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 3. april 2008 17:08 > To: Peter Jepsen > Subject: Re: [R] sqldf file specification, non-ASCII > > One other thing you could try would be to run it

Re: [R] sqldf file specification, non-ASCII

2008-04-03 Thread Peter Jepsen
t: Re: [R] sqldf file specification, non-ASCII One other thing you could try would be to run it through ffe (fast file extractor) which is a free utility that you can find via google. Use the ffe's loose argument. It can find bad lines and since its not dependent on R would give you and indepen

Re: [R] sqldf file specification, non-ASCII

2008-04-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 4/3/2008 10:22 AM, Peter Jepsen wrote: > Dear R-Listers, > > I am a Windows user (R 2.6.2) using the development version of sqldf to > try to read a 3GB file originally stored in .sas7bdat-format. I convert > it to comma-delimited ASCII format with StatTransfer before trying to > import just th

[R] sqldf file specification, non-ASCII

2008-04-03 Thread Peter Jepsen
Dear R-Listers, I am a Windows user (R 2.6.2) using the development version of sqldf to try to read a 3GB file originally stored in .sas7bdat-format. I convert it to comma-delimited ASCII format with StatTransfer before trying to import just the rows I need into R. The problem is that I get this e