Re: [Rd] read.csv and FileEncoding in Windows version of R 2.13.0

2011-06-06 Thread Alexander Peterhansl
,header=FALSE) (As you'll see, the file does have a byte order mark.) Regards, Alex -Original Message- From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 7:35 PM To: Alexander Peterhansl Cc: R-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] read.csv

[Rd] read.csv and FileEncoding in Windows version of R 2.13.0

2011-06-01 Thread Alexander Peterhansl
Dear R-devel List: read.csv() seems to have changed in R version 2.13.0 as compared to version 2.12.2 when reading in simple CSV files. Suppose I read in a 2-column CSV file (test.csv), say 1, a 2, b If file is encoded as UTF-8 (on Windows 7), then under R 2.13.0

Re: [Rd] strptime(): on Linux system it seems to call system time?

2010-04-01 Thread Alexander Peterhansl
; Alexander Peterhansl Subject: Re: [Rd] strptime(): on Linux system it seems to call system time? Let me lay this to rest. For some reason the OP did not use a vectorized call to strptime but 10 individual calls (as well as making *false* claims about what strptime does and what

[Rd] strptime(): on Linux system it seems to call system time?

2010-03-20 Thread Alexander Peterhansl
[I am herewith re-posting this message on R-devel, as it seems to be the most appropriate mailing list for this issue.] Dear List, From what I understand, strptime() simply converts from one class representation to another; i.e., from character to POSIXct/POSIXlt. One strange feature