Re: [R] Problem with ONE of the Special German Characters

2010-04-15 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 15/04/2010 12:22 PM, Michael Stegh wrote: Dear List, I have data which contain the special German characters "ä", "ö", "ü" etc. After reading the text files into R those characters are displayed strangely, e. g. "ä" is "ä". The first step is to replace those with their typical transcripti

[R] Problem with ONE of the Special German Characters

2010-04-15 Thread Michael Stegh
Dear List, I have data which contain the special German characters "ä", "ö", "ü" etc. After reading the text files into R those characters are displayed strangely, e. g. "ä" is "ä". The first step is to replace those with their typical transcription, e. g. "ä" becomes "ae" by using the gsub c