Re: [R] UTF8

2012-02-07 Thread Norma
Hi, I just found the solution to the problem in the following posts: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2008-October/005395.html AND https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2010-February/007106.html Now everything works. cheers Norma -- View this message in context: http://r.78

Re: [R] UTF8

2012-02-06 Thread David Winsemius
On Feb 6, 2012, at 11:18 AM, Norma wrote: As far as I can see it, those are two problems. The "default locale" and the language problem. I have exactly the same, I am using Mac OSX 10.6.8. I have also tried installation of packages. When installing a package I get a related error message:

Re: [R] UTF8

2012-02-06 Thread David Winsemius
On Feb 6, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Norma wrote: trying to change the locale like this *> Sys.setlocale("Macintosh HD")* failed with the following error: *Error in Sys.setlocale("Macintosh HD") : invalid 'category' argument* You are confused about what the locale setting is used for. They are f

Re: [R] UTF8

2012-02-06 Thread Norma
As far as I can see it, those are two problems. The "default locale" and the language problem. I have exactly the same, I am using Mac OSX 10.6.8. I have also tried installation of packages. When installing a package I get a related error message: *tar: Failed to set default locale* if I enter

Re: [R] UTF8

2012-02-06 Thread Norma
trying to change the locale like this *> Sys.setlocale("Macintosh HD")* failed with the following error: *Error in Sys.setlocale("Macintosh HD") : invalid 'category' argument* -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/UTF8-tp873280p4361803.html Sent from the R help mail

Re: [R] utf8 postscript cyrillic

2009-12-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
'Nothing seems to work' is not at all helpful, and you seem under the misconception that PostScript supports UTF-8 (sic): life would be much easier for device writers if it did. The postscript() help page says More details of font families and encodings and especially handling text i

[R] utf8 postscript cyrillic

2009-12-20 Thread Martin Ivanov
Dear R users, I am running R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26). I need to prepare an eps graphic with a legend with cyrillic words. I tried setting the encoding parameter of the postscript command, but in vain, nothing seems to work. I tried with CP1251, KOI8-R, UTF-8 and Cyrillic (UTF-8 turned out to

[R] utf8 encoding and postscript

2009-08-10 Thread Alexandros Droseltis
Hello! I wrote a script file with the following commands postscript() [...] barplot(pr, xlab="Länge") In the output file (Rplots.ps) the german umlaut is printed as "L..nge". How could I set the encoding correctly? Thanks for any help or tip. I am using R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20) on openSuSE.

[R] UTF8

2008-11-07 Thread Denise Duarte
Hi, I am trying to get R 2.8.0 for Mac OS from CRAN, but I thing I am doing something wrong because when R starts I have annoying error messages: During startup - Warning messages: 1: Setting LC_CTYPE failed, using "C" 2: Setting LC_COLLATE failed, using "C" 3: Setting LC_TIME failed, using "C" 4