Thank you so much for your reply.
I can identify the characters very easily in a couple of files. The reason I am worried is that I have thousands of files to read in. The files were produced in a very old MS-DOS software that records information on oceanographic data and geographic position during a survey. My main goal is read all these files into R for further analysis. Most of the files are cleared of these EOL markers but some are not. I only noticed the problem by chance when I was looking and comparing one of them. I wonder if I can solve this problem using R, without having to go for text editors separately. Help on this would be much appreciated. Thanks again J On 3/4/10, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > On Mar 3, 2010, at 2:22 PM, jonas garcia wrote: > > 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 think you should identify the offending line by using the count.fields > function and fix it with an editor. > > > -- > David > >> >> 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<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > David Winsemius, MD > Heritage Laboratories > West Hartford, CT > > [[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.