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From: pd@lgd @ending from gm@il@com (peter dalgaard)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 15:09:56 +0200
Subject: [Rd] 
 download.file does not process gz files correctly (truncates them?)
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There was a hint in the Twitterverse that Excel has issues with line endings in .csv. Can anyone elaborate on that? Then again, Excel goes belly-up on comma separators in central European locales anyway...

-pd

> On 8 May 2018, at 22:47 , Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 
> Also note that MS just announced support for unix line endings in notepad
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> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/05/08/extended-eol-in-notepad/
> 
> Hadley
> 

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[Rd] download.file does not process gz files correctly (truncates them?)
peter dalgaard