[R] Unicode notation \x000

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Christoph Heibl wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I am trying to replace Unicode notation of German and Spanish special 
> characters (as read in by read.csv from excel spreadsheets) by character 
> strings that can be interpreted by LaTeX.

Why?  LaTeX can read UTF-8 if you tell it to.

> E.g.:
>
> uni2latex <- function(x){
> 		x <- gsub("&", "et", x, fixed = TRUE)
> 		# Deutsch
> 		x <- gsub("\u0080", "\\\"A", x, fixed = TRUE)
> 		x <- gsub("\u008a", "\\\"a", x, fixed = TRUE)
> 		x <- gsub("\u0085", "\\\"O", x, fixed = TRUE)
> 		x <- gsub("\u009a", "\\\"o", x, fixed = TRUE)
> 		x <- gsub("\u0086", "\\\"U", x, fixed = TRUE)
> 		x <- gsub("\u009f", "\\\"u", x, fixed = TRUE)
> 		x <- gsub("§", "\\ss{}", x, fixed = TRUE)
> 		# Español
> 		x <- gsub("\u0084", "\\~N", x, fixed = TRUE)
> 		x <- gsub("\u0096", "\\~n", x, fixed = TRUE)
> 		x <- gsub("ç", "\\\'A", x, fixed = TRUE)
> 		x <- gsub("\u0087", "\\\'a", x, fixed = TRUE)
> 		x <- gsub("\u0083", "\\\'E", x, fixed = TRUE)
> 		x <- gsub("\u008e", "\\\'e", x, fixed = TRUE)
> 		x <- gsub("ę", "\\\'I", x, fixed = TRUE)
> 		x <- gsub("\u0092", "\\\'i", x, fixed = TRUE)
> 		x <- gsub("î", "\\\'O", x, fixed = TRUE)
> 		x <- gsub("\u0097", "\\\'o", x, fixed = TRUE)
> 		x <- gsub("ň", "\\\'U", x, fixed = TRUE)
> 		x <- gsub("\u009c", "\\\'u", x, fixed = TRUE)
> 		x
> 	}
>
>
> This function works fine for me if I source from a file, but if I try to 
> include it into a package, the package cannot be installed:
>
> "Error in parse(n = -1, file = file) : invalid \uxxxx sequence (line 835)"

And which line is that?

> (1) Why is there a difference between sourcing and package installation?

Quite possibly.  What locale are you using to install the package?  Mac OS 
X terminals seem to default to C.

> (2) How can I fix this?

Set a proper locale.

> (3) Perhaps there is a more reasonable way for doing this?

Yes, fix it in LaTeX.

>
> I am using R_2.7.1.

But the following is not the output from sessionInfo() as requested in the 
posting guide.

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>
>
>
> ________________________________________________________
>
> Christoph Heibl
>
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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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