Re: [R] Transferring a dataset from WINXP to Mac - problems with umlauts

Indeed, I meant to transfer a dataframe. The dump method followed by source(encoding = "cp1252") worked fine. Thank you very much. FB Am 28.03.2012 um 14:52 schrieb Prof Brian Ripley: > On 28/03/2012 13:27, David Winsemius wrote: >> On a Mac running with a US locale, when I first type -u (in >>

Re: [R] Transferring a dataset from WINXP to Mac - problems with umlauts

On 28/03/2012 13:27, David Winsemius wrote: On a Mac running with a US locale, when I first type -u (in Mail.app that shows a highlighted "naked umlaut) and then type 'u' I get: ü Similarly with opt-u, 'a' ä I don't think that was the problem: he very likely has a German keyboard in Jena. H

Re: [R] Transferring a dataset from WINXP to Mac - problems with umlauts

On a Mac running with a US locale, when I first type -u (in Mail.app that shows a highlighted "naked umlaut) and then type 'u' I get: ü Similarly with opt-u, 'a' ä -- David. On Mar 28, 2012, at 7:15 AM, Frank Bloos wrote: Dear R-Help, is it possible to correctly display umlauts in a dat

[R] Transferring a dataset from WINXP to Mac - problems with umlauts

Dear R-Help, is it possible to correctly display umlauts in a dataset, which has been created under WINXP, on a Mac-system? This is the problem: I have imported a German MS-Access database into R 2.14.1 by using RODBC on a WINXP-System. It runs with a Latin-1 encoding (codepage 1252). However,