That looks to me like an infinity sign (I have no idea why that is part of the header of this file, but it is there). How do I modify the encoding to read this in?
--j On 10/21/06 4:33 AM, "Roger Bivand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Jonathan Greenberg wrote: > >> 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 > ^^^ > > or whatever this looks like to you (was ^Ã for me in LC_CTYPE=en_GB) is a > multibyte string. Is there a mismatch between the encoding (see ?locales) > of the file and the machine into which you are reading? > >> 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.