Dear colleages in R,
I have earlier been working with R in Linux, where reading in a table
containing Scandinavian letters ("ä", "ö", and "å") in the header as
part of variable names has not caused any problem whatsoever.
However, when trying to do the same in R running on new MacOS-X (with
an Intel processor) with the same original text table does not seem to
work whichever way I try. Following the recommendations on the R site
and using the 'file' function to set the encoding breaks down at the
first encounter with a Scandinavian character:
THINK <- read.table(file("R_data/hs+sfnet.T.060505.tbl4",
encoding="latin1"),header=TRUE)
Warning messages:
1: invalid input found on input connection
'R_data/hs+sfnet.T.060505.tbl4'
2: incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on
'R_data/hs+sfnet.T.060505.tbl4'
A sample exemplifying such characters as variable labels is below
(for which the behavior of R in Mac is the same as for the larger file
referred to above):.
ajatella miettiä pohtia
1 FALSE FALSE TRUE
2 FALSE FALSE FALSE
3 FALSE TRUE FALSE
4 FALSE TRUE FALSE
5 TRUE FALSE FALSE
6 TRUE FALSE FALSE
7 FALSE FALSE FALSE
8 FALSE TRUE FALSE
9 FALSE TRUE FALSE
10 FALSE FALSE FALSE
Converting the the file from ISO-latin-1 to UTF8 (with Mac's TextEdit
application)allows the file to be read in in its entirety, but still
the Scandinavian character in the heading is coerced to a period '.',
or two, in fact (i.e. 'miettiä' -> 'miett..')
Have I possibly misunderstood how the 'file' function should be used
in conjunction with 'read.table', or might the problem with
latin1-to-utf conversion be somewhere else?
Appreciating any help on this matter,
--
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Antti Arppe - Master of Science (Engineering)
Researcher & doctoral student (Linguistics)
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WWW: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~aarppe
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