On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, David Winsemius wrote:
On Jan 16, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
You need to use CP1252 not UTF-8 to read the data. It tells you how to do
so on the help page ... under 'encoding'. So something like
A <- read.table(con <- file("myfile", encoding="CP1252"));close(con)
Please don't cross-post ... I am being brief because you did.
snip
Realizing that it might not work in all situations, would it give (possibly)
useful results to assign the incorrect encoding found in Gustaf's email,
which nonetheless was interpreted sensibly, "iso-8859-1", to the encoding
string?
Yes: CP1252 is a superset of ISO-8859-1. I knew because only one
encoding can be used for Swedish on Windows (unlike most other OSes
where there are three -- see my second posting).
--
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
_______________________________________________
R-SIG-Mac mailing list
[email protected]
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
