Re: [R] Confusing behavior when using gsub to insert unicode character (minimal working example provided)

Yep. You are right. That is better. -tgs On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Ista Zahn istaz...@gmail.com wrote: 10Hi Thomas, On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Thomas Stewart tgs.public.m...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks to to Ista Zahn, I was able to find a work around solution. The key

Re: [R] Confusing behavior when using gsub to insert unicode character (minimal working example provided)

Thanks to to Ista Zahn, I was able to find a work around solution. The key seems to be that string1 needs to be encoded as UTF-8 prior to being passed to gsub. For whatever reason, Encoding(string1) - UTF-8 does not change the encoding on my Windows machine. The work around: I paste an

Re: [R] Confusing behavior when using gsub to insert unicode character (minimal working example provided)

10Hi Thomas, On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Thomas Stewart tgs.public.m...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks to to Ista Zahn, I was able to find a work around solution. The key seems to be that string1 needs to be encoded as UTF-8 prior to being passed to gsub. For whatever reason,

[R] Confusing behavior when using gsub to insert unicode character (minimal working example provided)

Can anyone help me understand the following behavior? I want to replace the letter 'X' in ​the string ​ 'text X' with '≥' (\u226 ​5 ). The output from gsub is not what I expect. It gives: text ≥. Now, suppose I want to replace the character '≤' in ​ the string​ 'text ≤'

Re: [R] Confusing behavior when using gsub to insert unicode character (minimal working example provided)

On May 28, 2014, at 7:25 PM, Thomas Stewart wrote: Can anyone help me understand the following behavior? I want to replace the letter 'X' in ​the string ​ 'text X' with '≥' (\u226 ​5 ). The output from gsub is not what I expect. It gives: text ≥. Now, suppose I want to replace the