--- John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:07:11 -0500 (EST) > From: John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [R] read.spss and encodings > To: Thomas Friedrichsmeier > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi Thomas, > > I am using R 2.4.1 on WindowsXP and I don't seem to > be > having any problem, im Büro, and zuhause are coming > in > just fine in a 200 line dataset. > > I have imported it with both read.spss and spss.get > (package Hmisc) with no problems. > > I am afraid I have no idea what the problem is but > it > does not seem to be specifically an R problem > > --- Thomas Friedrichsmeier > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > I'm having trouble with importing spss files > > containing non-ascii characters > > (R 2.4.1, debian linux, i386). To reproduce: > > > > Download the following file: > > > http://statmath.wu-wien.ac.at/data/spss/de/comphomeneu.sav > > > > require (foreign) > > Sys.setlocale (locale="C") > > read.spss("comphomeneu.sav")$ARBEIT[1] > > # prints: > > # [1] im B\374ro > > # Levels: im B\374ro zuhause > > > > \374 of course is actually a u-umlaut. However, I > > guess in the C locale it's > > not expected to print as such. But now try this > (use > > any UTF-8 locale you may > > have installed): > > > > Sys.setlocale (locale="de_DE.UTF-8") > > read.spss("comphomeneu.sav")$ARBEIT[1] > > # prints: > > # [1]Error in print.default(xx, quote = quote, > ...) > > : > > # invalid multibyte string > > > > To me it looks, like read.spss () would probably > > need an encoding parameter, > > and / or some iconv () magic. Now, locale > conversion > > always makes my head > > spin, so I thought I'd better post here, before > > calling this to be a bug in > > R. Two questions: > > > > 1) Is there some way to work around this, i.e. > make > > sure it is converted to > > proper UTF-8 while importing? Am I missing > something > > obvious? > > 2) Should I submit this as a bug report? > > > > Thanks! > > Thomas Friedrichsmeier > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!?
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