Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > But to the point: how often do people get DOS-style files on a > Unix-alike? You have to work pretty hard to do this, and there comes a > point at which complicating R to workaround wrongly encoded files is not > worth the trouble. Let's see if anyone else reports having done this. >
In my experience, this is a common occurrence. Granted, foreign line delimiters are less common in a configuration file like .Rbuildignore, but they have been the culprit more than once in package problems I have encountered. think functionality like Python's universal newlines would be a big win for R. One of the big draws in a programming language like Python is its claim to being portable, and universal newlines are a critical part of that functionality. Mac-style newline delimiters are surfacing more often these days as well, and the best place to sort this all out would be in the built-in file manipulation functions. -- Nathan Coulter Computer Programmer ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
