Re: [R] How to use read.table with Hebrew column names ?

[Tal Galili]

Hi Jorge,
Thank you for the answer, it is a lead.
Though I am unsure as to what to do next with it :)

Here is my session info:

>
>   sessionInfo()

R version 2.9.1 (2009-06-26)

i386-pc-mingw32


locale:

LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252


attached base packages:

[1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  tcltk     utils     methods

[8] base


other attached packages:

[1] rcom_2.2-1      rscproxy_1.3-1  svSocket_0.9-43 svMisc_0.9-48

[5] TinnR_1.0.3     R2HTML_1.59-1   Hmisc_3.6-0


loaded via a namespace (and not attached):

[1] cluster_1.12.0  grid_2.9.1      lattice_0.17-25 tools_2.9.1



Tal



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On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Jorge Ivan Velez
<jorgeivanve...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Tal,
>
> I am not even sure what is going on, but I think it is OS specific. When I
> run your script on a Mac, I got the desired result:
>
> > read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt";, header = T, sep =
> "\t")
>   אחת שתיים שלוש
> 1  12    97    6
> 2 123   354   44
> 3   6     1    3
>
> This is the sessionInfo():
>
> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
> x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
>
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
>
> When doing the same on a PC via virtual machines on the same Mac, I got:
>
> > read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt";, header = T, sep =
> "\t", as.is = TRUE)
>    X.....ª X...ª...... X...œ....
> 1      12          97         6
> 2     123         354        44
> 3       6           1         3
>
> Here is the sessionInfo():
>
> R version 2.10.1 Patched (2009-12-21 r50814)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United
> States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
>
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> HTH,
> Jorge
>
> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Tal Galili <> wrote:
>
>>  Hello dear R help group,
>>
>> I am trying to read a .txt file, with Hebrew column names, while keeping
>> the
>> column names looking well in R - but without success.
>>
>> I uploaded an example file to:
>> http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt
>>
>> And am trying the command:
>> read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt";, header = T, sep =
>> "\t")
>>
>> This returns me with:
>>
>>  X.....ª X...ª...... X...œ....
>> 1      12          97         6
>> 2     123         354        44
>> 3       6           1         3
>>
>> Instead of:
>>
>> אחת     שתיים   שלוש
>> 12      97      6
>> 123     354     44
>> 6       1       3
>>
>>
>> Any suggestion or clarification will be appreciated.
>>
>> Best,
>> Tal
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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