On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Kenneth Roy Cabrera Torres wrote:
Hi Carlos: I think you got a encoding problem. Maybe is esier to convert it. I don't know how to convert in Mac OS, but in linux you can use "iconv" that converts many codes to other.
Well, R has an iconv() command even on Mac OS X, and my iMac has 'iconv' as a command-line program. But you need to know what to convert from and to.
Is the original file form a windos$ OS system? Maybe the encoding is in windows-1256 and you need to convert to a compatible MAC enconding.
Hmm, in latin1 (the most plausible Windows encoding) \x92 is a quote and \x96 is an en dash. 1256 is Arabic.
I think this is a MAC encoding, an obsolete one (Mac OS X in the main uses UTF-8). Try encoding="macroman".
However, if you read ?read.table, you will see that *its* encoding argument does not re-encode. You want
con <- file(<filename>, encoding="macroman") tmp <- read.table(con, ...) close(file) There's an example on ?file (as 'encoding' in ?read.table says).
Hope this helps. Kennneth El dom, 10-08-2008 a las 22:14 -0700, Carlos Cuartas escribió:Hello,
In R under Mac OS X 10.5.4 I've had problems when I've tried to read a data.frame with characters including tildes and accents. For instance Florea is changed to Flore\x96a and Ranchera is changed to Rancher\x92a In the code: section<-read.table('Sectiondic.txt',sep='\t',header=T,stringsAsFactors=F,encoding=" ") I've changed the "encoding" argument but I have not could find the solution.
Any suggestion? Thanks a lot Carlos Cuartas
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