[R] Embedded carriage returns in text document

[Augusto.Sanabria at ga.gov.au]

Dennis,

You can get rid of the '^M' by reformating the 
file from DOS to UNIX. Withing a UNIX system 
send the command
   > dos2unix filename1 filename2.
Filename2 won't have the '^M'.

Hope it helps,

Augusto


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[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Dennis Fisher
Sent: Tuesday, 14 November 2006 9:06
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] Embedded carriage returns in text document


Colleagues,

I am using R 2.4.0 on both a Mac (10.4.8) and Linux (RedHat 9).  To  
read data from an Excel spreadsheet, I do "save as"  in Excel, then  
select the "Text (tab-delimited)" format.  The resulting file uses a  
tab separator and I can usually read the file using read.delim.

Sometimes, the header row contains embedded carriage returns.  When I  
view the file, these carriage returns appear as  "^M".

Now the problem:
When I read.delim these files, they do not read correctly.  Sometimes  
I get error messages; sometimes only the first line is read.   
Interestingly, invoking the option skip=1 (or a larger N) does not  
appear to bypass the problem.

I can solve the problem by manually deleting these carriage returns  
either in the original Excel file or the .txt version.   However,  
this is not an ideal solution.

Does anyone have a work-around within R?

Dennis


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