Dear R developers I think I have found a bug that can be reproduced with two lines of code and I am very thankful to get your first assessment or feed-back on my report.
If this is the wrong mailing list or I did something wrong (e. g. semi "anonymous" email address to protect my privacy and defend unwanted spam) please let me know since I am new here. Thank you very much :-) J. Altfeld On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 18:25 +0100, nos...@altfeld-im.de wrote: > > > If I execute the code from the "?write.table" examples section > > x <- data.frame(a = I("a \" quote"), b = pi) > # (ommited code) > write.csv(x, file = "foo.csv", fileEncoding = "UTF-16LE") > > the resulting CSV file has a size of 6 bytes which is too short > (truncated): > > """,3 > > The problem seems to be the iconv function: > > iconv("foo", to="UTF-16") > > produces > > Error in iconv("foo", to = "UTF-16"): > embedded nul in string: '\xff\xfef\0o\0o\0' > > In 2010 a (partial) patch for this problem was submitted: > > http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e10/devel/10/06/0648.html > > Are there chances to fix this problem since it prevents writing Windows > UTF-16LE text files? > > > > PS: This problem can be reproduced on Windows and Linux. > > --------------- > > > sessionInfo() > R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10) > Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) > Running under: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS > > locale: > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C > LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 > [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 > LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C > LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods > base > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] tools_3.2.3 > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel