Dear R users, I am trying to read a huge file in R. For some reason, only a part of the file is read. When I further investigated, I found that in one of my non-numeric columns, there is one odd character responsible for this, which I reproduce bellow: In case you cannot see it, it looks like a right arrow, but it is not the one you get from microsoft word in menu "insert symbol".
I think my dat file is broken and that funny character is an EOL marker that makes R not read the rest of the file. I am sure the character is there by chance but I fear that it might be present in some other big files I have to work with as well. So, is there any clever way to remove this inconvenient character in R avoiding having to edit the file in notepad and remove it manually? Code I am using: read.csv("new3.dat", header=F) Warning message: In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote, : incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'new3.dat' I am working with R 2.10.1 in windows XP. Thanks in advance Jonas [[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.