On 21 Apr 2008, at 12:33, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> Is it possible to download a compiled snapshot of 2.7.0 for Windows >> XP? > Yes, http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rtest.html > And it is due for release tomorrow.
I played with 2.7.0 on Windows XP. I can do things which couldn't be done with 2.6.x. Many many thanks for the effort!!! But, I always came to a point where I didn't find a solution, due to the fact that Windows has no UTF-8 locale(s). Has Windows Vista UTF-8 locales? If I'm dealing with known languages I'm able to get rid of a lot of things. But my/our problem is that we have to deal with different languages at the same time [in a data.frame]. Furthermore I/we have to deal with IPA symbols, which haven't a locale; and grep, strsplit, etc. are set up on top of the chosen locale. Thus I'm not able to use strsplit on a string which contains German, Russian, IPA-symbols, because all glyphs which are not part of the chosen locale are displayed [e.g. as output of strsplit()] literally as <U+XXXX>. That's why the only solution is to use an UTF-8 environment (OS) or for hard-liners to transform each glyph into numbers and to do research on that numbers (which is really annoying ;). Unfortunately at this point I have to give up. Maybe there is someone who can give me further advice with Windows. The only thing, maybe, I have in mind is to use Perl, Python etc. in beforehand to manipulate the data before the data are analyzed using R. --Hans ______________________________________________ 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.
