Russell Pierce wrote:
I may be making a simple error, but I've looked at the str() of the resulting objects and I can't see any obvious reason I'm having the problem I am having, so I am reaching out to the R-help group. I am generating a string in my code. When I make a slight modification (add a comma at the end using my "lastcomma" function), I can no longer successfully write that string to a file. Specifically, the resulting file contains only the "ⰱ" character. This occurs in: R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26) & R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base but not in... R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu locale: LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;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 Sample code: h.long <- 150 task <- c(rep(1,h.long),rep(2,h.long)) ord <- sample(1:length(task)) task <- task[ord] taskout <- paste(task,collapse=",") write(file="please.txt",taskout) lastcomma <- function(x) {return(paste(x,",",collapse="",sep=""))} res <- lastcomma(taskout) write(file="fail.txt",res) cat(file="catfail.txt",res)Any ideas as to how to avoid this problem would be appriciated as well as suggestions as to whether this is expected behavior, or whether it ought to be reported as a bug.
I don't see the problem in R version 2.10.1 Patched (2010-01-05 r50896) nor in R 2.11.0 Pre-release (Windows Vista). -Peter Ehlers
Best, Russell Pierce
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