Just because the subject mentions R doesn't mean it is on topic here. This is more related to Windows than R. I recommend studying windows documentation for awhile. A quick search turned up a number of discussions on the web, including http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1035388/unicode-output-on-windows-command-line. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[email protected]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
Ned Harding <[email protected]> wrote: >So just to clarify - there is no way to use R CMD BATCH on windows with >Unicode? Any advice of how to use R in a batch mode with Unicode >inputs and outputs? > >Ned. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley >Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 12:45 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [R] R CMD BATCH Unicode > >On 25/06/2013 20:35, Ned Harding wrote: >> Just to clarify: The encoding didn't come through in the email. >print("éíôåëëåãåâáè") is meant to be a bunch of random greek >characters. > >In that case the message is likely correct. You failed to give us the >'at a minimum information' required by the posting guide, but you can >only have input scripts in the locale encoding (and there are no UTF-8 >locales on Windows). So unless you were in a Greek locale, the >re-encoding should have failed. > >> Ned. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ned Harding >> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 11:35 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [R] R CMD BATCH Unicode >> >> Hey, >> >> I am looking for some help using Unicode with R CMD BATCH on windows. >In particular I would like my input and output files to be UTF-8 >encoded. My command line looks like this: >> >> r CMD BATCH --encoding=UTF-8 in.txt out.txt >> >> in.txt is utf-8 encoded and contains: >> >> print("éíôåëëåãåâáè") >> >> out.txt gets: >> >> + <ERROR: re-encoding failure from encoding 'UTF-8'> >> >> What is the proper way to specify encoding on the command line? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Ned. >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [email protected] 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. > >Please do, and note what it says about HTML mail, too. ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
