I am teaching grad/undergrad course in which I am introducting students to R as a side topic; however, I am simultaneously supporting Windows/MacOSX/Linux for the students. Under some conditions, the Windows users can not read files originating from MacOSX. The end-of-line differences between OSs is the cause. Windows=\r\n; Mac=\r; Unix=\n; etc. Some of the students are extremely frustrated (of course). My Windows users will not have dos2unix or perl -pi -e 's/\r\n$/\n/' or similar abilities for file conversion. read.table() does not appear to have capability to modify its end-of- line definition--is this true? Is there some R command sequence for the students to change the end-of-line? I've scanned mail archive and the Export/Importing manual, but I am stuck and need some advice from other instructors of R in classroom environments. THANKS! William A.