On Oct 6, 2010, at 16:13 , Eitan Tzelgov wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to read a matrix with row names in Hebrew, but I am unable to read > the Hebrew words, e.g.: > > להחזיק -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01 > 9.854603e-01 1.111321e+00 > ש×חרי -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01 7.421092e-01 > 3.439690e-01 > היישוב -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01 > 1.050982e+00 1.125970e+00 > ×‘×ª×™× -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01 -5.607143e-01 > -5.266479e-01 > שמחה -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01 5.390752e-01 > 1.210426e+00 > מקומיות -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01 > 2.756580e-01 7.413793e-01 > בתחומי -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01 > 1.411763e+00 1.110181e+00 > שב××™× -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01 -5.583328e-01 > -5.942577e-01 > לשבח -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01 1.329662e+00 > 8.314318e-01 > ×”×ª×œ×ž×™×“×™× -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01 > -8.652285e-01 -6.453765e-01 > להתערב -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01 3.133604e-01 > -3.698027e-01 > תרומה -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01 8.353492e-01 > 4.940267e-01 > ו×× ×• -1.544317e-02 4.375258e+00 -8.652285e-01 > -6.453765e-01 > > I have tried to change the system locale to hebrew, i.e., > Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL", "Hebrew"), and tried to read the fiele transforming it > to a talbe using as.talbe using: > beta<- read.table(x, header=T, sep="\t", encoding="UTF-8") > > but I get the follwonig error message. > > Error in read.table(x, header = T, sep = "\t", encoding = "UTF-8") : > 'file' must be a character string or connection > > After moving back to english, sessionInfo () gives: > R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26) > i386-pc-mingw32 > locale: > [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 > [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 > [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 > [4] LC_NUMERIC=C > [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] tools_2.10.0 > > Does anyone have any ideas on to read the Hebrew content?
Not really, but I notice that the error message relates to the filename, not the contents... Whatever x is, it is not the name of the file. -- Peter Dalgaard Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.