Re: [R] Encoding() and strsplit()

At 09:15 07.11.2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: See the 'R Internals' manual. Thank you, now I understand a little more. My real problem, however is a data frame produced by spss.get(). Is there a simple possibility to mark all characters in that data.frame (except ASCII characters), including

Re: [R] Encoding() and strsplit()

See the 'R Internals' manual. ASCII characters are not marked as Latin-1 nor UTF-8. On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Heinz Tuechler wrote: Dear All, Encoding() goes beyond my understanding. See the example. I would expect from reading the help for Encoding() that strsplit preserves the encoding for each

[R] Encoding() and strsplit()

Dear All, Encoding() goes beyond my understanding. See the example. I would expect from reading the help for Encoding() that strsplit preserves the encoding for each resulting element, but for simple letters it gets lost. Also it seems that an Encoding() cannot be declared for simple letters.