On 10/14/2009 2:29 PM, Adrian Dragulescu wrote:
> Thank you.
>
> If I use
>>gsub(" \xad", "-", x)
> [1] "NEW YORK-NEW ENGLAND"
>
> I get what I want.
Right, that's simpler than what I suggested.
Duncan Murdoch
>
> Adrian
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
>
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, 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.
>>
>> We really do need the 'at a minimum' information we asked you for in the
>> posting guide. But in cp1252 (a guess as to what you might be using) \xad is
>> a 'soft hyphen', and that is not the same thing as a hyphen -- you will get
>> the same issues with 'non-breaking space'.
>>
>> BDR
>>
>>>
>>> Adrian
>>>
>>> I use R 2.8.1 on WinXP
>>>
>>>
>>> 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"
>>
>> Well, I see no hyphen at all here, but then I am not on Windows.
>>
>>>> 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
>>
>> --
>> Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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