I posted my data for a midterm into notepad and it turned into symbols. The other bit I posted turned out just fine, but for some reason this one messed up. I need this stuff for a class. Anyone know how to get my data back. Please help soon! -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Help-I-turned-my-data-into-junk-tp1585481p1585481.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
It's probably binary data - which implies that you can only "read" it with the application that created it. What is the filename extension? Ravi -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Help-I-turned-my-data-into-junk-tp1585481p1585585.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On 03/09/2010 01:49 PM, Brienne wrote:> > I posted my data for a midterm into notepad and it turned into symbols. The > other bit I posted turned out just fine, but for some reason this one messed > up. I need this stuff for a class. Anyone know how to get my data back. > Please help soon!Hi Brienne, As far as I am aware, you can't "post" something into Notepad. You can open a file, and it almost always has to be a text file, otherwise you will see a mess of symbols. My guess is that you were supplied with a data file for an assignment, and when you opened it in Notepad, it was a mess. As Ravi noted, you can often work out what application to use by looking at the extension (the part of the filename after the last period). So .xls or .xlsx is for Excel, .doc or .docx is for Word, and .mdb is for Access. I'm pretty sure that you will find that one of these applications is the one you want. Jim
Am 09.03.2010 03:49, schrieb Brienne:> > I posted my data for a midterm into notepad and it turned into symbols. The > other bit I posted turned out just fine, but for some reason this one messed > up. I need this stuff for a class. Anyone know how to get my data back. > Please help soon!Hello! You copied it from where? With Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V, you are on windows, I assume? Just a wild guess: You have a problem with encodings: What happens if you copy it back from where ever you fetched the data? But not to give hope place, I think you (better your data) are/is lost... But without knowing the source, nothing more can be said... Albin -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Albin Blaschka, Mag. rer.nat - Salzburg, Austria | http://www.albinblaschka.info http://www.thinkanimal.info | It's hard to live in the mountains, hard, but not hopeless!