Re: [R] Wide character in print?

2013-02-04 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Feb 4, 2013, at 10:39 AM, Spencer Graves wrote: > Hello: > > > Googling for "Wide characters in print" led me to a discussion that > pushed me to review the "read.table" help page. Careful study there > suggested I try setting "fileEncoding" to something; it suggested I look at

[R] Wide character in print?

2013-02-04 Thread Spencer Graves
Hello: Googling for "Wide characters in print" led me to a discussion that pushed me to review the "read.table" help page. Careful study there suggested I try setting "fileEncoding" to something; it suggested I look at the "Encoding" section in the help file for "file". This suggested

Re: [R] Wide character in print?

2013-02-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Note that this is a Perl message (nothing to do with R), as the message from gdata says pretty clearly. Ask the gdata maintainer (see our posting guide) or on a Perl forum. There are less restricted ways to read .xls files in R: XLConnect can read this file, for example. On Sun, 3 Feb 2013,

[R] Wide character in print?

2013-02-03 Thread Spencer Graves
Hello: I get "Wide character in print" from trying read.xls("22_data.xls") in the gdata package, with "22_data.xls" downloaded from "Varieties_Country_A-E.xls" at "http://www.reinhartandrogoff.com/data/browse-by-topic/topics/7/": > library(gdata) > read.xls("22_data.xls") Wide charac