Hi all, I hope that there is someone that can help me out here. I am trying to load() a workspace on os x (R 2.11.0) that was saved in windows XP (R 2.9). In that workspace, there's a data.frame with names that contain swedish characters. These characters become garbled, which is a major problem. >From the R windows FAQ, I read:
"Note though that character data in a workspace will be in a particular encoding that is not recorded in the workspace, so workspaces containing non-ASCII character data may not be interchangeable even on the same OS. Since R marks character data when it knows it to be in UTF-8 or Latin-1 (including its Windows superset, CP1252), strings in those encodings are likely to be transferred correctly: fortunately this covers most of the common cases (Mac OS X normally uses UTF-8, and Linux users are likely to use UTF-8 or perhaps Latin-1 (which used to be used for English)). " Apparently, my case is not the most common one, and I don't know why. I've been trying to dig into the load() function, but since it uses a lot of .Internal functions, I get stuck there. I've also tried doing options(encoding="latin1"), which doesn't seem to change anything. And now I'm stuck. Any suggestions on where to look? I've run into this issue twice before. The first time I managed to get it solved, but can't remember how (perhaps a .Rprofile setting somewhere?). The second time, I mailed R-Sig-Mac, got some tips that unfortunately did not lead anywhere, and subsequently gave up. I hope third time's a charm! Many thanks in advance, Gustaf -- Gustaf Rydevik, M.Sci. tel: +46(0)703 051 451 address:Essingetorget 40,112 66 Stockholm, SE skype:gustaf_rydevik ______________________________________________ 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.
