[R] special characters

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

BORGULYA Gábor <borgulya at gyer2.sote.hu> writes:

> Dear R-users,
> 
> Some hours ago I successfully installed R 1.7.1 on my Linux computer
> (SuSE 8.1). Now I am trying to get my scripts work which I have
> written for R/Windows.
> 
> * While with Windows I was able to use the vowels with the accents
> present in the Hungarian language:
> 
>  > d$crude.inc<-d$esetszám/d$évközepi.lélekszám*1000000
>  >
> 
> the same line leads to an error on Linux:
> 
>  > d$crude.inc<-d$esetszám/d$évközepi.lélekszám*1000000
> Error: syntax error
>  >

This is generally a locale problem, specifically, LC_CTYPE needs to be
set so that (AFAIR) isprint() returns true on the printable characters
in Hungarian locale. Actually, most of the iso-8859 locales will do
(Does Hungarian use iso-8859-1 or -2, BTW?), e.g. for me

> d$crude.inc<-d$esetszám/d$évközepi.lélekszám*1000000
Error: Object "d" not found
> Sys.getenv("LC_CTYPE")
LC_CTYPE
 "da_DK"

(NB: no syntax error in that, just a complaint that I didn't define
d). A fair guess is that you want to set 

export LC_CTYPE=hu_HU 

in your .profile, or systemwide wherever SuSE wants you to put it. You
can also set LANG or LC_ALL, although I choose not to because it
upsets other parts of the system (error messages, collating sequence,
etc.) 

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