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...indeed what I get when I try the code in question. If I append an empty line at the end of my test.txt and then apply readLines() to that file, I get [1] "abc" "def" "" "ghi" "", again as *I* would expect. What am I missing? Sorry for being a thicko. cheers, Rolf -- Honorary Research Fellow Department of Statistics University of Auckland Stats. Dep't. (secretaries) phone:readLines("test.txt") +64-9-373-7599 ext. 89622 Home phone: +64-9-480-4619

I just went through upgrading from 2.0.7 on Redhat 7.0 using the binary RPM provided by samba.org and noticed a problem with the swat install. It seems that the swat binary in the RPM is built to look for it's supporting files in /usr/share/samba/swat whereas the RPM installs said files in /usr/share/swat. This results in the following error message when you try to access swat: 400 Server

If I have this object: x <- c("abc\ndef", "", "ghi") and I write it to a file using `writeLines(x, "test.txt")`, my text editor sees a 5 line file: 1: abc 2: def 3: 4: ghi 5: which is what I'd expect: the last line in the editor is empty. If I use `readLines("test.txt")` on that file, I get the vector

I previously sent a cri de coeur about this problem to the r-help list but so far have not managed to extract a solution. So I am trying here. (Uh, Ubuntu *is* a "special instance" of Debian, isn't it?) The problem is that I cannot install rgdal, and I need it. Rather desperately. I do: install.packages("rgdal",lib="/home/rolf/Rlib") and get the error