Try Sys.setlocale().
marco.R.help marco.R.help wrote: > > I am trying to use "sub" to replace patterns in a character array that > contains german names with german special characters. I have the following > problem: > >> sub("\\xdf","ss","Wei\xdferitzkreis") > Error in sub(pattern, replacement, x, ignore.case, extended, fixed, > useBytes) : > input string 1 is invalid in this locale >> sub("\xdf","ss","Wei\xdferitzkreis") > Error in sub(pattern, replacement, x, ignore.case, extended, fixed, > useBytes) : > 'pattern' is invalid in this locale > > Does anybody know how to tackle this problem ? > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/problem-with-sub-%21-tf4141431.html#a11781512 Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.