Just as an update on encoding (which may or may not be of interest). I
changed the read.csv command for three .csv files I was reading to specify
the encoding to be
encoding="CP1252"
and all 3 files were read in without problems on linux. Last night I
swapped the analysis back on to my windo
David Scott wrote:
> I am a total dunce when it comes to encodings though. How do you find the
> encoding of a file?
>
You don't. Either you know it, or you are up the proverbial creek (or
roof). The "8-bit ascii" encodings is one of the greater computer crimes
of the last century precisely b
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, David Scott wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, David Scott wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I have encountered a problem with reading a .csv file on a linux box. I
>>> can read the file on my windows machine (under XP) but on the linux box it
>
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, David Scott wrote:
>
>>
>> I have encountered a problem with reading a .csv file on a linux box. I
>> can read the file on my windows machine (under XP) but on the linux box it
>> gives :
>>
>>> patients <- read.csv("../Patient
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, David Scott wrote:
>
> I have encountered a problem with reading a .csv file on a linux box. I
> can read the file on my windows machine (under XP) but on the linux box it
> gives :
>
>> patients <- read.csv("../Patients.csv", header = FALSE,
> + col.names
I have encountered a problem with reading a .csv file on a linux box. I
can read the file on my windows machine (under XP) but on the linux box it
gives :
> patients <- read.csv("../Patients.csv", header = FALSE,
+ col.names = patientsNames)
Error in type.convert(data[[i]],
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