Re: [R] questions on French characters in plot

2012-12-12 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 11 décembre 2012 à 23:39 +0100, Richard Zijdeman a écrit : > Dear Milan, please see my results inline > > On 11 Dec 2012, at 16:58, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > > > Le mardi 11 décembre 2012 à 16:41 +0100, Richard Zijdeman a écrit : > >> Dear Milan, > >> > >> thank you for kind suggest

Re: [R] questions on French characters in plot

2012-12-11 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 12-12-10 7:10 PM, Richard Zijdeman wrote: Dear all, I have imported a dataset from Stata using the foreign package. The original data contain French characters such as è and ç . After importing, string variables containing names of French departments have changed. E.g. Ardèche became Ard\x8

Re: [R] questions on French characters in plot

2012-12-11 Thread Richard Zijdeman
Dear Milan, please see my results inline On 11 Dec 2012, at 16:58, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > Le mardi 11 décembre 2012 à 16:41 +0100, Richard Zijdeman a écrit : >> Dear Milan, >> >> thank you for kind suggestion. Converting the characters using: >>> iconv(department, "ISO-8859-15", "UTF-8")

Re: [R] questions on French characters in plot

2012-12-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 11 décembre 2012 à 16:41 +0100, Richard Zijdeman a écrit : > Dear Milan, > > thank you for kind suggestion. Converting the characters using: > > iconv(department, "ISO-8859-15", "UTF-8") > indeed improves the situation in that now all values (names of > departments) are displayed in the p

Re: [R] questions on French characters in plot

2012-12-11 Thread Richard Zijdeman
Dear Milan, thank you for kind suggestion. Converting the characters using: > iconv(department, "ISO-8859-15", "UTF-8") indeed improves the situation in that now all values (names of departments) are displayed in the plot, although the specific special characters are unfortunately appearing as e

Re: [R] questions on French characters in plot

2012-12-11 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 11 décembre 2012 à 01:10 +0100, Richard Zijdeman a écrit : > Dear all, > > I have imported a dataset from Stata using the foreign package. The > original data contain French characters such as and . > After importing, string variables containing names of French > departments have change

[R] questions on French characters in plot

2012-12-10 Thread Richard Zijdeman
Dear all, I have imported a dataset from Stata using the foreign package. The original data contain French characters such as è and ç . After importing, string variables containing names of French departments have changed. E.g. Ardèche became Ard\x8fche. I would like to ask how I could plot the