I'm getting the following error: > headerinfo=readLines(met_station_file,n=8) > headerinfo [1] "Plot Title: tahoe met validation ,,,,,,," [2]Error: invalid multibyte string
met_station_file's first 8 lines are as follows: Plot Title: tahoe met validation ,,,,,,, #,"Time, GMT-07:00","Temp, F",Coupler Attached,Host Connected,Coupler Detached,Stopped,End Of File 34,10/1/2005 0:00,49.937,,,,, 35,10/1/2005 0:30,47.266,,,,, 36,10/1/2005 1:00,47.446,,,,, 37,10/1/2005 1:30,47.982,,,,, 38,10/1/2005 2:00,48.517,,,,, 39,10/1/2005 2:30,49.228,,,,, Why am I getting this error? Are those quotation marks causing the hiccup? If so, how do I get around this programmatically? --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD NRC Research Associate NASA Ames Research Center MS 242-4 Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 Office: 650-604-5896 Cell: 415-794-5043 AIM: jgrn307 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.