On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, EJ Nikelski wrote: > I have jut installed the foreign package (v 0.8-8) on my OS X > machine, and have a bit of a problem writing out a data frame in SPSS > format. Specifically, the code file (the .sps format file) seems to > write 3 unprintable hex values instead of double quotes. For example, in > the following output ... > > VALUE LABELS > / > immDel > 1 ###1### > 2 ###2### > 3 ###3### > > ... emacs tells me that the left-sided ### are the hex codes E2 80 9C, > on the right we have E2 80 9D. I am supposing that I should be seeing > double-quotes here? Interestingly, the data file, which also contains a > quoted field, writes out the quotes without any problem. Does anyone > have any ideas?
An idea. Those are left and right double quotes in UTF-8 and since MacOS X is usually in a UTF-8 locale they should be printable. However, I suspect that SPSS is expecting ASCII double quotation marks. You haven't told us what you did, but I guess you used write.foreign(package="SPSS"). That calls writeForeignSPSS which contains calls to dQuote(), and the latter are wrong if ASCII quotation marks are needed. A quick workaround is to use a non-UTF-8 locale: how you do that on ypur OS depends on how you run R so please ask advice on the R-sig-mac list. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [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
