On 9/19/06, Mesomeris, Spyros [CIR] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear R helpers,
>
> I am trying to read a CSV file in R called EUROPE (originally an Excel
> file which I have saved as a CSV file) using the command
>
> EUROPEDATA <- read.csv("EUROPE.csv")
>
> EUROPE.csv is basically a matrix of dimension 440*44, and has a line of
> headers, i.e. each column has a name.Check your file for unicode characters, they will get in the way. I'm new to R myself but have used both read.delim and read.csv. I've only had problems when the files contained unicode. I don't know excel, but in staroffice you need to explicitly set the character set during the save if the file had unicode on input. Cheers, Geoff Russell ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
