Re: [R] Multibyte characters in (row) names

2010-08-03 Thread Richard R. Liu
David, Thanks.  It turns out that, once you've set up your locales properly, it's almost impossible to create an example for the problem. I'm working with scientific text which contains a fair amount of symbols:  degrees, plus-or-minus, etc.  When I read the text in, I specified UTF-8.  My loc

Re: [R] Multibyte characters in (row) names

2010-08-02 Thread David Winsemius
On Aug 2, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Richard R. Liu wrote: I have an array with names which contain multibyte characters. When I try to write the array to a file using write.table and row.names = T I receive an error message when the first such name is encountered, saying that I have not specifie

[R] Multibyte characters in (row) names

2010-08-02 Thread Richard R. Liu
I have an array with names which contain multibyte characters.  When I try to write the array to a file using write.table and row.names = T I receive an error message when the first such name is encountered, saying that I have not specified the option to generate NA instead.  I really would be sati