Thank you Prof. Ripley, I'll read ?file and ?iconvlist.
Denis
Le 2010-12-02 à 01:37, Prof Brian Ripley a écrit :
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Denis Chabot wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Until now, I have always been happy to export dataframes using write.csv2.
>> The only drawback was than they often include accented vowels and Excel on
>> Mac seems to ONLY be able to properly understand MacRoman encoding. So I
>> used OpenOffice instead to open them.
>>
>> But for the next little while, colleagues using Windows and who do not have
>> a clue about encoding (and who do not want to know about encoding) need to
>> use my files. My files will have to be in ISOLATIN1 encoding.
>
> Most likely CP1252, which is the encoding used on Windows in W. European
> languages, not-quite-a-superset of latin1. (This is all in the R manuals,
> BTW.)
>
>> It is unfortunate that the write.table family of functions does not have a
>> FileEncoding option like the read.table function family.
>
> But that's just syntactic sugar.
>
> file: either a character string naming a file or a connection open
> for writing. ‘""’ indicates output to the console.
>
> See ?file for how to specify the encoding of a connection. Very likely you
> want
>
> con <- file('filename', open="w", encoding = "latin1")
>
> (or "macroman": see ?iconvlist to find encoding names on your OS).
>
> [...]
>
>
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