[R] substitute accents

[Manuel Gutierrez]

$ locale
LANG=en_GB
LC_CTYPE="en_GB"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB"
LC_TIME="en_GB"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB"
LC_PAPER="en_GB"
LC_NAME="en_GB"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB"
LC_ALL=

  
$ locale charmap
ISO-8859-1

I have tried changing the locales with no difference.
Is this fine?
And, no, I didn't get any warning message.
My sistem is a debian sid under kde 3.3.
Thanks,
M

 --- Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
escribió: 
> Can you please tell us what locale you are working
> in?
> 
> This looks as if the problem might be the use of a
> UTF-8 locale, which R 
> does not currently support and which some Linux
> distros have made their 
> default.  However, R does issue a warning -- so did
> you get one?
> 
> On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Manuel Gutierrez wrote:
> 
> > I have an openoffice spreadsheet with a column of
> > character strings.
> > Some of them contain accents.
> > I want to read it in R so I have saved it as a csv
> > file using Western Europe (ISO-8859-1) character
> set
> > (the default, I've tried other sets but it doesn't
> > help).
> > R reads it fine with
> >
> >
>
CharMatrix<-read.csv("test.csv",header=F,sep=",",as.is=TRUE);
> > Say I wan't to replace the 'o' with accent in the
> > first cell.
> > I've tried:
> > gsub('ó','o', CharMatrix[1,1])
> > But, It doesn't make any substitution
> > Trying to find a solution I input the character
> string
> > in R and do the substitution:
> > CharMatrix[1,1]<-"hóla"
> > gsub('ó','o', CharMatrix[1,1])
> > And it works. I think the difference is that when
> I
> > now print the content of CharMatrix I get a \201
> > before the ó while I didn't get it with the
> openoffice
> > imported csv file.
> > I'm sure it is a problem with my understanding of
> how
> > accents can be specified. Can someone give me any
> > solutions / references?
> > Thanks,
> > M
> >
> >         _
> > platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > arch     i686
> > os       linux-gnu
> > system   i686, linux-gnu
> > status
> > major    2
> > minor    0.0
> > year     2004
> > month    10
> > day      04
> > language R
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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