Re: [Rd] Windows script editor and locale

2011-01-23 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jan 21, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > There is no support for files in alternative encodings in RGui's menus: not > to source files nor to load into a pager or the script editor. (I believe > all of those long predate any support for encodings in R.) > > Such provision is ra

Re: [Rd] Windows script editor and locale

2011-01-21 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
There is no support for files in alternative encodings in RGui's menus: not to source files nor to load into a pager or the script editor. (I believe all of those long predate any support for encodings in R.) Such provision is rather rare on Windows: files are almost everywhere assumed to be

[Rd] Windows script editor and locale

2011-01-21 Thread peter dalgaard
Maybe I'm just overlooking something, but I can't figure out how to set/change the locale of a file loaded into the built-in script editor on Windows. The generic issue is that if I make a teaching script on a Mac, save it to a USB stick, and open it in the script editor in a classroom, then spe