On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Nathan Coulter wrote:
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.
But R *does* have 'universal newlines' on its connections, and has for
many years.
We are talking about a Perl script here, not 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.
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Nathan Coulter
Computer Programmer
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