Re: [R] scan() Bug

2004-01-26 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Riddick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 4:52 PM Subject: Re: [R] scan() Bug? On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Greg Riddick wrote: I'm reading a file into a list by: PDF = scan(file,what=character,sep=\10) \10 is the newline character in this file, also

Re: [R] scan() Bug?

2004-01-26 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Greg Riddick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Works fine now...though I have noticed that the sep character that actually gets written to the file is -2 the value specified. So I wanted \10 and needed to specify \12 to get it. Am I doing something wrong here? Just overlooking that such codes are

[R] scan() Bug?

2004-01-22 Thread Greg Riddick
I'm reading a file into a list by: PDF = scan(file,what=character,sep=\10) \10 is the newline character in this file, also tried \n originally On lines that are ended by \13\10, both are dropped from the list entry I want scan to keep the \13 in the list entry. Is this a bug or just a strange

Re: [R] scan() Bug?

2004-01-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Greg Riddick wrote: I'm reading a file into a list by: PDF = scan(file,what=character,sep=\10) \10 is the newline character in this file, also tried \n originally On lines that are ended by \13\10, both are dropped from the list entry I want scan to keep the \13 in

Re: [R] scan() Bug?

2004-01-22 Thread Greg Riddick
Thanks, Right, I can see why sep=\n might grab the entire \13\10 but it seems like sep=\10 should not strip the \13 also. I need to read in this file (PDF file) and create a list of lines defined by the \10 delimiter. Any suggestions how I could use ReadBin to do that? Not a strange

Re: [R] scan() Bug?

2004-01-22 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Greg Riddick wrote: Thanks, Right, I can see why sep=\n might grab the entire \13\10 but it seems like sep=\10 should not strip the \13 also. Why do you claim so? Text mode is *documented* to use any of CR, CRLF or LF as the line delimiter. Please don't keep telling