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Hi, I have the following input file. $ cat main.txt CEL_A CELL_B 1 4 2 5 2 6 Then I run read.table in R. > f=read.table('main.txt', header=T, check.names=F, sep='\t') > head(f) \ufeffCEL_A CELL_B 1 1 4 2 2 5 3 2 6 > f$CEL_A NULL I'm not sure where the special character \ufeff comes from. Could anybody let me know what is the problem? Thanks, John [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I'm use RPostgreSQL to access data on a Postgres server. I would like to keep my SQL statements in external files, as they're easier to write and debug in pgAdmin, then I use readLines to bring them into R and feed to dbGetQuery. Here's the problem. When I create a SQL script with pgAdmin, then load it in R, the ensuing script fails when I feed it to dbGetQuery. When I inspect the

Dear list, If I include the zero-width non-breaking space (\ufeff) in a string, nchar seems to compute the wrong number of columns used by 'cat'. > x <- "f\ufeffoo" > x [1] "f?oo" > nchar(x,type="width") [1] 2 I would expect "3" here. Going through the documentation of 'Encoding' and 'encod...

I can confirm that it doesn't happen on Ubuntu 18.04.1 so Peter is most likely correct; it looks like its Windows specific. On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 12:55, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote: > > This doesn't seem to be happening on MacOS, neither in Terminal nor RStudio, (R 3.5.1, R-devel, R-patched). So probably Windows specific. > > -pd > > > On 7 Feb