On Sep 8, 2012, at 05:17 , Dan Delaney wrote:
> Hi all. I have an SPSS file that I'm loading into R with the Hmisc spss.get
> function. The trouble is that the SPSS file uses the Windows-1252 character
> set (which I think is the default for SPSS on Windows) instead of plain-ol'
> Latin-1, and since spss.get doesn't allow me to pass the "reencode" option to
> read.spss, any characters in Windows-1252 that are not a part of Latin-1
> (such as curly quotes, en-dashes, and a handful of others) come into R
> looking like this: "Don\x92t know". Now if I read that SPSS file in with
> read.spss and include "reencode='Windows-1252'", those characters convert to
> UTF-8 just fine, yielding "Don’t know". But then, of cource, I don't get the
> niceties of spss.get, such as the "labels" attributes on the columns.
>
> So my question is, how can I either pass the "reencode='Windows-1252'" option
> through to read.spss, or how can I make spss.get default to reencoding from
> Windows-1252 instead of Latin-1?
Would it work to do the conversion afterwards?
> iconv("\x92", from="CP1252")
[1] "’"
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