Just as an update on encoding (which may or may not be of interest). I
changed the read.csv command for three .csv files I was reading to specify
the encoding to be
encoding=CP1252
and all 3 files were read in without problems on linux. Last night I
swapped the analysis back on to my
I have encountered a problem with reading a .csv file on a linux box. I
can read the file on my windows machine (under XP) but on the linux box it
gives :
patients - read.csv(../Patients.csv, header = FALSE,
+ col.names = patientsNames)
Error in type.convert(data[[i]],
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, David Scott wrote:
I have encountered a problem with reading a .csv file on a linux box. I
can read the file on my windows machine (under XP) but on the linux box it
gives :
patients - read.csv(../Patients.csv, header = FALSE,
+ col.names =
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, David Scott wrote:
I have encountered a problem with reading a .csv file on a linux box. I
can read the file on my windows machine (under XP) but on the linux box it
gives :
patients - read.csv(../Patients.csv, header =
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, David Scott wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, David Scott wrote:
I have encountered a problem with reading a .csv file on a linux box. I
can read the file on my windows machine (under XP) but on the linux box it
gives :
David Scott wrote:
I am a total dunce when it comes to encodings though. How do you find the
encoding of a file?
You don't. Either you know it, or you are up the proverbial creek (or
roof). The 8-bit ascii encodings is one of the greater computer crimes
of the last century precisely
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