I agree with you. For the same purpose I use Text-Edit Plus, which is also free and in my opinion is the best all-purpose text editor on any platform (but sorrowly not for programming).
Best regards Christian Stratowa Paul Pynsent wrote:
I detect an anti Mac theme, I do not wish to attribute blame but suggest that Excel does funny things when it dumps tab separated text files, like adding unprintable characters and trailing spaces.
My approach is to use BBedit (which is free) to:
1) zap gremlins
2) globally substitute \ \t for \t (ie remove trailing spaces which R does not ignore).
3) convert DOS new lines to Mac new lines.
Equally you could use awk etc. on a Mac to do this. In general it is not safe to do this cleaning operation on a DOS/Windows system as conversions may still take place on transmission to an Apple.
On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 05:10 am, Hamish McCallum wrote:
Dear All,
I've been using R for windows for a while, without too many problems. However, I'm forced to use the MAC OS system for teaching, because our teaching labs are mac only (not my idea!!). I have a very basic problem, but one that doesn't appear on the FAQs. I simply want to import data from a spreadsheet. I'm using exactly what works fine on Windows, namely:
1 save the file from Excel as tab-delimited, say called "test.txt", with the variable names in the first row.
2 Read in into R with
test<-read.table("test.txt", header=T)
It does weird things, especially if any variables are characters. For example, it has omitted the 5th observation for the 1st variable, and then appended it to the first variable name. I've tried read.csv with csv files, read.delim, etc. None seem to work. Am I being really silly, and if so, how do you do it? Or is there an easier way to get data into the mac port? Or is the mac port entirely useless?
Can anyone out there help?
Thanks
Hamish McCallum
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The University of Queensland
Brisbane 4072
Australia
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