[R] ascii load file ( was Re: none)

[Jonathan Myles]

On 7 Nov 2000, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> Jonathan Myles <mylesj at icrf.icnet.uk> writes:
> 
> > I have just moved to a new workplace.  I saved an R workspace into
> > an ascii file at my old workplace and have ftp'ed it down here.
> > Unfortunately when I try to load the get a message saying that 
> > the file is corrupted.  It's  a big file, but my experience suggests
> > that this normally refers to a problem at the beginning or end of a file,
> > so I thought it might be worth enclosing just the output of "head" and "tail"
> 
> Hmm. Did you use binary mode FTP? 
> ..
> 
> > {there seems to be a carriage return after the last -1}
> 
> Or maybe a ctr-Z which is used for EOF on DOS?
> 
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I've now got a colleague at MRC-BSU to compress it, and email it as an
attachment to my UNIX machine, where I uncompressed it and then ftp'ed
it in ascii format to my laptop.  So it doesn't seem to be an ascii/bin
issue ...

Jonathan

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