Indeed, I meant to transfer a dataframe. The dump method followed by source(encoding = "cp1252") worked fine.
Thank you very much. FB Am 28.03.2012 um 14:52 schrieb Prof Brian Ripley: > On 28/03/2012 13:27, David Winsemius wrote: >> On a Mac running with a US locale, when I first type <option>-u (in >> Mail.app that shows a highlighted "naked umlaut) and then type 'u' I get: >> >> ü >> Similarly with opt-u, 'a' >> >> ä > > I don't think that was the problem: he very likely has a German keyboard in > Jena. Here's my guess. > > Your message dropped the contents for me, so pasting a bit from the original: > > 'is it possible to correctly display umlauts in a dataset, which has been > created under WINXP, on a Mac-system?' > > Depends what is meant by 'a dataset'. If this a a dataframe, I think the > simplest thing to do would be to export it to csv (write.csv) on the Windows > box, and then read it on the Mac with > > read.csv(..., fileEncoding="cp1252") > > (cp1252 being more plausible than latin1, and is a superset). > > Or use dump() on the object, and then source(encoding = "cp1252") > > It is also possible to save() the object on WinXP, load() on the Mac and then > convert with iconv(), but that could be tedious if the non-ASCII characters > are in more than one element. > > If this is not the right guess, we need something more explicit .... > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ 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.
