> > I installed "libiconv" from http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/, and > now I can easily replace all non- ASCII characters in my UTF-8 encoded R > files with: iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII --unicode-subst="\u%04X" > my-utf-8-encoded-file.R
Maybe it would be possible to create an R package that exposes an R interface to libiconv, in a smililar spirt as how the package XML interfaces to libxml2 and RCurl to libcurl, etc [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel