Le vendredi 23 mars 2012 à 08:10 +0100, Julien Velcin a écrit : > Here it is: > > R version 2.14.2 (2012-02-29) > Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit) > > locale: > [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 I guess the OS uses a French locale? Maybe the discrepancy between R locale and the OS's is the problem. Can you try with a French locale? This would be strange, because UTF-8 should be the same in both settings, but still worth a try...
Else, please do this and post the output, just in case: url <- "http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/GraniteSkyline?action=fans" lines <- readLines(url) head(lines) library(tools) showNonASCII(head(lines)) Hope this helps ______________________________________________ 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.