OK, looks like my web browser does render non-ascii characters output by R when it's given the encoding explicitly. This works for me: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>. So that's another solution, but not a general one.
-Matt On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 12:47 -0600, Matt Shotwell wrote: > All, > > I'd like to automatically output text from R to HTML. In doing this I've > run into trouble with non-ascii characters, as my browser (and > presumably others) does not render such characters correctly. For > example, the 'fancy' single quotes associated with summary.lm are > multi-byte characters on my platform. This particular problem is solved > by options(useFancyQuotes=FALSE). But now I'm concerned about other > non-ascii characters. As an overkill maybe, my current solution involves > capture.output and iconv(..., to="ASCII//TRANSLIT"). Are there other > sources of non-ascii character? Is there a better or general solution? > > Best, > Matt > > > sessionInfo() > R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16) > Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) > > locale: > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C > [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 > [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 > [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] tools_2.12.1 > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
