I would bet the problem is end-of-line convention. This is a very old problem of text file conversion that has many solutions, none of which should be addressed by R. Rather, you should use any of the many standard file transfer mechanisms that understand EOL issues in text files, rather than transferring the data as if it were binary data. Email is one such mechanism, FTP is another. Many text editors can also fix this for you. It is possible to fix it in R, but that is a very bad approach. Google is your friend. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
Gary Dong <pdxgary...@gmail.com> wrote: >I am working in Windows system. But a software I am using requires data >input in ascii (.dat, delimiters can be tabs or spaces). I was able to >save >the data into .dat (ascii) from SPSS, but it keeps causing problems. >Thank >you! > >Gary > > >On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Sarah Goslee ><sarah.gos...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Gary Dong <pdxgary...@gmail.com> >wrote: >> > Dear R users, >> > >> > I have a data set in .csv and I hope to convert it to .dat (ascii) >so it >> > can work in an UNIX environment. Anyone can help me? Thank you! >> >> Please expand. Why can't you work with csv in a UNIX environment? >> >> I do it all the time. >> >> Sarah >> >> -- >> Sarah Goslee >> http://www.functionaldiversity.org >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.