[R] How to read a matrix with Hebrew row names?

[Eitan Tzelgov]

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
שאחרי             -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
בתים               -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
שבאים             -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
התלמידים       -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
×•×× ×•               -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?
 
Thanks!
 
 

Eitan Tzelgov
Ph.D. Candidate
The Pennsylvania State University
Department of Political Science
University Park, PA 16802



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