Hello
Because I want to use different true type fonts with latex, I'm using the XeTeX typesetting engine for my sweave-documents. I'm using Lyx with Sweave on a Windows 7 PC and have set up LyX to work with XeTeX according to the following instructions: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XeTeX Because the input file for XeTeX is assumed to be in UTF-8 encoding, I set the encoding under LyX - Tools - Language Settings - Language to "Unicode (XeTeX) (utf8)". Accented letters that I write into the LyX-document are correctly typeset in the final PDF-document. However, character strings with accented letters that are read from Excel-files or other sources from within R during the LyX-Sweave document compilation are not. For instance, the German umlauts of the following example are not correctly typeset, when "Unicode (XeTeX) (utf8)" is used as input encoding. <<echo=F>>= require(gdata) x <- read.xls("http://www.schwerhoerigkeit.pop.ch/hoergeraete_test.xls";, stringsAsFactors = F)[2,2] x @ I do not have this problem with a Mac computer . I guess, this is because R under Windows does not use UTF-8 encoding. I tried to change the encoding within R by doing the following <<echo=F>>= Encoding(x) <- 'UTF-8' x @ Unfortunately, this does not work. Does anybody have solution for this problem? Regards, Erich [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
