There is no support for files in alternative encodings in RGui's
menus: not to source files nor to load into a pager or the script
editor. (I believe all of those long predate any support for
encodings in R.)
Such provision is rather rare on Windows: files are almost everywhere
assumed to be in the current Windows codepage (or sometimes WinANSI,
as in the 'Command prompt' terminal) or in so-called Unicode (usually
UCS-2LE, possibly UTF-16LE, with a BOM).
I think you could equally ask the same question in reverse: AFAICS the
R.app GUI has no support for Latin-1 nor UCS-2LE files. At least in
our UK experience, the proportion of non-Windows users is so low that
it is those (including this instructor) who expect to adjust.
What might make some sense is for file.edit() to gain a 'fileEncoding'
argument so this could at least be done from the command-line.
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, peter dalgaard wrote:
Maybe I'm just overlooking something, but I can't figure out how to
set/change the locale of a file loaded into the built-in script
editor on Windows.
The generic issue is that if I make a teaching script on a Mac, save
it to a USB stick, and open it in the script editor in a classroom,
then special Danish characters in the comments come out as two-byte
sequences, which are pretty unsightly. I know that I can convert the
file with iconv (or iconv()), but then I'd have to maintain two
copies of the same file for the two operating systems, if I want the
students to access it. Would be nice if there was something like a
set-coding-system to call up via a menu item.
Any pointers?
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Phone: (+45)38153501
Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com
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