On 06/12/2018 7:45 AM, Kate Stone wrote:
Hello r-help,Could you help me determine whether this is an R bug or not? I've been trying to read this binary file in R: download.file("ftp://ftp.fieldtriptoolbox.org/pub/fieldtrip/tutorial/preprocessing_erp/s04.eeg","s04.eeg";) and I get a different length file (i.e. much longer) in Windows >= 8 x64 (build 9200) than in Ubuntu. I've tested it with different R versions in Windows and different package versions with the same incorrect result. Other colleagues have tested it on the same Windows/Ubuntu builds and got the correct length. I'm not sure whether this is an R problem or something to do with my OS specifically, or even with the file itself. Any ideas?? I've attached a small script demonstrating the issue.
On Windows, the `mode = "wb"` argument to download.file() is important, otherwise it is assumed to be a text file, and LF is changed to CR LF. There may also be handling of EOF marks, I forget.
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