At 13:34 07.11.2008, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Heinz Tuechler wrote:
> Dear Prof.Ripley!
>
> Thank you very much for your attention. In the given example Encoding(),
> or the encoding parameter of read.csv solve the problem. I hope your
> patch will solve also the problem, when I read a spss file by
> spss.get(), since this function has no encoding parameter and my real
> problem originated there.
read.spss() (package foreign) does have a reencode argument, though; and
this is called by spss.get(), so it looks like an easy hack to add it
there.
Thank you, that means, I have to change spss.get
to make it accept the reencode argument and pass
it to read.spss. At the moment I prefer to step
back to R 2.7.2 and to wait for a more general
solution, because to me, there seem to be still strange effects of encoding.
In the following example the encoding gets lost
by dumping and rereading, even if I use the
encoding parameter of source(). But may be, I
don't understand what this parameter should do.
Heinz Tüchler
us <- c("a", "b", "c", "ä", "ö", "ü")
Encoding(us)
[1] "unknown" "unknown" "unknown" "latin1" "latin1" "latin1"
dump('us', 'us_dump.txt')
rm(us)
source('us_dump.txt', encoding='latin1')
us
[1] "a" "b" "c" "ä" "ö" "ü"
Encoding(us)
[1] "unknown" "unknown" "unknown" "unknown" "unknown" "unknown"
unlink('us_dump.txt')
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