Re: [R] Importing data from SPSS with Arabic encoding

2009-01-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Florent Bresson wrote: Dear R-users, I'm facing a problem with the import of data in R. I have a sav file that, I presume, uses some Arabic encoding (but I don't know which one) and I would like to read it with R. When I use the function read.spss (I also tried spss.get(H

[R] Importing data from SPSS with Arabic encoding

2009-01-07 Thread Florent Bresson
Dear R-users, I'm facing a problem with the import of data in R. I have a sav file that, I presume, uses some Arabic encoding (but I don't know which one) and I would like to read it with R. When I use the function read.spss (I also tried spss.get(Hmisc)), I get the following message: > read.sp