I have encountered a problem with reading a .csv file on a linux box. I
can read the file on my windows machine (under XP) but on the linux box it
gives :
> patients <- read.csv("../Patients.csv", header = FALSE,
+ col.names = patientsNames)
Error in type.convert(data[[i]], as.is = as.is[i], dec = dec,
na.strings = character(0)) :
invalid multibyte string
Calls: read.csv -> read.table -> type.convert
Execution halted
I am running R 2.6.1 on both machines. I tried on another linux box
running 2.5.1 and got the same problem
I am guessing it is something to do with the character encoding. On the
linux box I have
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Any advice would be welcome
David Scott
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The University of Auckland, PB 92019
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