Summary: [R] How to represent pure linefeeds chr(10) under R for Windows

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Gabor" == Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at myway.com>
>>>>>     on Thu,  6 Nov 2003 15:33:04 -0500 (EST) writes:

    Gabor> Its also possible to avoid these intricacies by not
    Gabor> using an intermediate text representation, i.e. csv,
    Gabor> in the first place.

    Gabor> The following R code uses the free dataload utility
    Gabor> (Google search for Baird dataload utility) to create
    Gabor> an .xls file from data frame, x:

    Gabor>    save(x,file="x.rda") 
    Gabor>    system("dataload x.rda x.xls/u")

    Gabor> At this point you can read x.xls into Excel.

Note that this has two "problems" IMO, which Jens' R-only
solution does not have:

1) dataload is *not* free software in the sense of the 
   Free Software Foundation  (which has existed for a much
   longer time than MS windows!):
   It's only "free" as in "free beer", not "free" as in "free speech" .
   For more, read the  "Free as in Freedom" main link on http://www.fsf.org/

2) dataload is only available as *binary* on *some* platforms,
   as opposed to R which is available to everyone working with
   it :-)

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