Re: [R] Help Read File With Odd Characters

2012-11-08 Thread Lee Hachadoorian
On 11/08/2012 02:51 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On 08/11/2012 07:11, Lee Hachadoorian wrote: I have a large (105MB) data file, tab-delimited with a header. There are some odd characters at the beginning of the file that are preventing it from being read by R. That is a BOM make in UCS-2 enco

Re: [R] Help Read File With Odd Characters

2012-11-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 08/11/2012 07:11, Lee Hachadoorian wrote: I have a large (105MB) data file, tab-delimited with a header. There are some odd characters at the beginning of the file that are preventing it from being read by R. > dfTemp = read.delim(filename) Error in make.names(col.names, unique = TRUE) : inv