[R] puzzle using gsub (and encodings maybe)

[Adrian Dragulescu]

I get the same results (not working) using R 2.9.2 and R.10.0 beta.

Thank you for looking at this.

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On 10/14/2009 1:41 PM, Adrian Dragulescu wrote:
>> 
>>> charToRaw(x)
>>   [1] 4e 45 57 20 59 4f 52 4b 20 ad 4e 45 57 20 45 4e 47 4c 41 4e 44
>>> charToRaw(y)
>>   [1] 4e 45 57 20 59 4f 52 4b 20 2d 4e 45 57 20 45 4e 47 4c 41 4e 44
>>> 
>> 
>> So they are different.
>> 
>> Adrian
>> 
>> I use R 2.8.1 on WinXP
>
> But that's ancient.  Please try again with the beta of 2.10.0, and let us 
> know if you still see a problem.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> 
>>> On 10/14/2009 1:30 PM, Adrian Dragulescu wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> Below is some output that shows my issue.
>>>> 
>>>> I have a variable x that I read from a file (more on this below)
>>>> 
>>>>> x
>>>> [1] "NEW YORK NEW ENGLAND"
>>>>> gsub(" -", "-", x)            # this does not work!
>>>> [1] "NEW YORK NEW ENGLAND"
>>> 
>>> It looks as though it worked, presumably because something got lost in 
>>> your email.
>>> 
>>> Could you post charToRaw(x) so we can see what's in x?
>>> 
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>> 
>>>>> Encoding(x)                   # is x in a special encoding? no
>>>> [1] "unknown"
>>>>> y = "NEW YORK -NEW ENGLAND"   # I type in variable y
>>>>> gsub(" -", "-", y)            # and gsub works as expected
>>>> [1] "NEW YORK-NEW ENGLAND"
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I'm sure the problem has to do with the way I read the variable x.  But 
>>>> even if I change the encoding for x to ASCII, I still cannot do the sub.
>>>> I get x by reading a pdf file with pdftotext so you will not be able to 
>>>> replicate my issue.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for any suggestions,
>>>> Adrian
>>>> 
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