ReadLines question

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:

I'm getting the following error:

headerinfo=readLines(met_station_file,n=8)
headerinfo

[1] "Plot Title: tahoe met validation ,,,,,,,"
[2]Error: invalid multibyte string

            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

met_station_file's first 8 lines are as follows:

Plot Title: tahoe met validation ,,,,,,,
#,"Time, GMT-07:00","Temp, ?F",Coupler Attached,Host Connected,Coupler

                             ^^^

or whatever this looks like to you (was ^? for me in LC_CTYPE=en_GB) is a
multibyte string. Is there a mismatch between the encoding (see ?locales)
of the file and the machine into which you are reading?

Detached,Stopped,End Of File
34,10/1/2005 0:00,49.937,,,,,
35,10/1/2005 0:30,47.266,,,,,
36,10/1/2005 1:00,47.446,,,,,
37,10/1/2005 1:30,47.982,,,,,
38,10/1/2005 2:00,48.517,,,,,
39,10/1/2005 2:30,49.228,,,,,

Why am I getting this error?  Are those quotation marks causing the hiccup?
If so, how do I get around this programmatically?

--j