On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:46:36 -0400, Nathan Coulter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. I think so too. Too often I get files from other people that were encoded in different systems, so EOL can be a source of grief. Most of the time they are DOS (M$), so I got in the habit of using the tofromdos tools for DOS <-> Unix EOL issues because this is a problem I'd rather fix for the whole file system, rather than a particular task in R. -- Seb ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
