Question about Line Ending Choice
Hi Enrico, You bring me the missing piece of my understanding to my conceptual planning and cost counting to avoid delivery costs being greater than acceptable. Much appreciated. *Stephen Dawson, DSL* /Executive Strategy Consultant/ Business & Technology +1 (865) 804-3454 http://www.shdawson.com
On 9/29/22 05:24, Enrico Schumann wrote:
On Tue, 27 Sep 2022, Stephen H. Dawson, DSL via R-help writes:
Hi All, I am writing with a question about choosing the line ending aspect of a file, please. I use write.csv and write.table to export work to CSV files and TXT files. I am planning now on how to share my work with the Windows crowd beyond only sharing with the Linux crowd. I use my text editor to flip the line ending option from Linux to Windows after exporting. This is inefficient for me to accomplish if I ramp up production as I expect will occur. Staying with the character encoding of UTF-8 seems fine for now from what I understand I need to deliver to my customers. What seems more efficient to me is to learn how to use R to define the line ending aspect of the exported file. I have not found if this is an option within R. QUESTION Is it possible within R to define the line ending aspect of file output? Kindest Regards,
Just a remark: there is a "standard" for CSV, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4180. It always requires CRLF as the line ending.