[R] Write greek text to Windows Unicode file

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Weltler Rezső - Contenuto Bt. wrote:

> Hi, everybody!

> I am an experienced senior programmer, but absolutely newbie in R, so 
> excuse me if my question is too silly.

> I need for my work to evaluete some greek text statistically. The text 
> is in a Windows Unicode file, so I read it in via

>                             readLines(...,encoding="UCS-2LE")

> and it works perfectly! But finally the program has to write out the 
> results (e.g. frequencies, but of course the greek root words too) to an 
> output unicode text file, which could be later read in by another R 
> program or edited by Notepad or MS Word. I tried it with the same method 
> (for examle using cat), but the result, i.e. the output isn't a rightly 
> encoded Windows file.

It is probably (we have no reproducible example) a correctly encoded 
Unicode-standard file (the point being that Windows used non-standard 
BOMs).

> Before sending this email I've searched for an answer to my question in the helps and also in learning guides and have found some hints but no solution.
> Please do help me!

Please do help us to help you by giving the reproducible example the 
posting guide asked you for.

> Rezs?
>
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