[R] Please help: cannot import files from Windows into R

[William Dunlap]

The file may have been stored in the UTF-16 encoding (what Windows Notepad
calls "Unicode").  If so, adding fileEncoding="UTF-16" to the read.table
command might read it correctly.

Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Christa Rose <xarose at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can someone please help? The read.table command is not working for me I
> think because Windows has my account name stored as "Christa Rose" with a
> space in it. Is this a problem? I have tried many syntax iterations, and
> cannot get around this.
>
> Here is an example of the syntax I've used:
> > RanMinePlay<-read.table("c:\\Users\\Christa
> Rose\\Desktop\\Ran_mine_play_data.txt",header=T)
> And returned error messages:
>  in read.table("c:\\Users\\Christa Rose\\Desktop\\Ran_mine_play_data.txt",
> :
>   empty beginning of file
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: In read.table("c:\\Users\\Christa
> Rose\\Desktop\\Ran_mine_play_data.txt",  :
>   line 1 appears to contain embedded nulls
> 2: In read.table("c:\\Users\\Christa
> Rose\\Desktop\\Ran_mine_play_data.txt",  :
>   incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'c:\Users\Christa
> Rose\Desktop\Ran_mine_play_data.txt
>
> Can someone help me resolve this??
>
> Christa Rose
>
>
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