On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Jonathan Greenberg wrote: > 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?
The problem is the degree sign. Under linux: $ file tmp/Marlette_lake_snotel.csv tmp/Marlette_lake_snotel.csv: ISO-8859 text, with CRLF, CR line terminators so probably the conversion to multibyte is happening on your reading platform. Reading the file into 2.4.0 on Windows with a Norwegian 1252 setting (Sys.getlocale()), I see the degree sign. If you know the column names anyway, jump over the header and insert them yourself. Alternatively filter the non-ASCII character out before reading, it looks predictably like a degree sign. In any case, the character is not very practical in a column name. Roger > > --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 > >> > >> > > > -- Roger Bivand Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ [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.
