I am trying to process text fields scanned in from a csv file that is output from the Windows database program FileMakerPro. The characters onscreen look like regular text, but R does not like their underlying binary form. For example, one of text fields contains a name and a number, but R recognizes the number as something other than what it appears to be in plain text. The character string "Draszt 03" after being read into R using scan and ="" becomes "Draszt 03" where the 3 is displayed in my R session as a superscript. Here is the result pasted into this email I'm composing in emacs: "Draszt 0%/1ÂÂiso8859-15Â" Another clue for the knowledgable: when I try to display the vector element causing trouble, I get <CHARSXP: "Draszt 0%/1ÂÂiso8859-15Â"> where again the superscipt part is just "3" in my R session. I'm working in Linux, R version 1.9.1, 2004-06-21. Your help will be much appreciated.
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