Re: [R] laf_open_fwf

: Freitag, 9. August 2013 10:01 An: Kamenik Christian ASTRA Betreff: Re: AW: AW: [R] laf_open_fwf Christian, It seems some of the lines in your file have additional characters at the end causing the line lengths to vary. The only way I could think of is to first add whitespace to the shorter

Re: [R] laf_open_fwf

- Von: Jan van der Laan [mailto:rh...@eoos.dds.nl] Gesendet: Freitag, 9. August 2013 10:01 An: Kamenik Christian ASTRA Betreff: Re: AW: AW: [R] laf_open_fwf Christian, It seems some of the lines in your file have additional characters at the end causing the line lengths to vary. The only way I

Re: [R] laf_open_fwf

christian.kame...@astra.admin.ch www.astra.admin.ch -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Jan van der Laan [mailto:rh...@eoos.dds.nl] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. August 2013 20:57 An: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Kamenik Christian ASTRA Betreff: Re: [R] laf_open_fwf Dear Christian, Well... it shouldn't normally

Re: [R] laf_open_fwf

89 Fax +41 31 323 43 21 christian.kame...@astra.admin.ch www.astra.admin.ch -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Jan van der Laan [mailto:rh...@eoos.dds.nl] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. August 2013 20:57 An: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Kamenik Christian ASTRA Betreff: Re: [R] laf_open_fwf Dear Christian

Re: [R] laf_open_fwf

Dear Christian, Well... it shouldn't normally do that. The only way I can currently think of that might cause this problem is that the file has \r\n\r\n, which would mean that every line is followed by an empty line. Another cause might be (although I would not really expect the results you

[R] laf_open_fwf

Dear all I was trying the (fairly new) LaF package, and came across the following problem: I opened a connection to a fixed width ASCII file using laf_open_fwf(my.filename, my.column_types, my.column_widths, my.column_names) When looking at the data, it turned out that \n (newline) and \r