[R] How to use read.table with Hebrew column names ?

[David Winsemius]

You might try:

read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt", header = T,  
fileEncoding = "UTF-8", sep = "\t")

-- 
David.

On Jan 1, 2010, at 5:37 PM, Tal Galili wrote:

> Hi Jorge,
> Thank you for the answer, it is a lead.
> Though I am unsure as to what to do next with it :)
>
> Here is my session info:
>
>>
>>  sessionInfo()
>
> R version 2.9.1 (2009-06-26)
>
> 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 datasets  tcltk     utils      
> methods
>
> [8] base
>
>
> other attached packages:
>
> [1] rcom_2.2-1      rscproxy_1.3-1  svSocket_0.9-43 svMisc_0.9-48
>
> [5] TinnR_1.0.3     R2HTML_1.59-1   Hmisc_3.6-0
>
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>
> [1] cluster_1.12.0  grid_2.9.1      lattice_0.17-25 tools_2.9.1
>
>
>
> Tal
>
>
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> On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Jorge Ivan Velez
> <jorgeivanvelez at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Tal,
>>
>> I am not even sure what is going on, but I think it is OS specific.  
>> When I
>> run your script on a Mac, I got the desired result:
>>
>>> read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt", header = T,  
>>> sep =
>> "\t")
>>  אחת שתיים שלוש
>> 1  12    97    6
>> 2 123   354   44
>> 3   6     1    3
>>
>> This is the sessionInfo():
>>
>> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
>> x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>>
>> When doing the same on a PC via virtual machines on the same Mac, I  
>> got:
>>
>>> read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt", header = T,  
>>> sep =
>> "\t", as.is = TRUE)
>>   X.....ª X...ª...... X...œ....
>> 1      12          97         6
>> 2     123         354        44
>> 3       6           1         3
>>
>> Here is the sessionInfo():
>>
>> R version 2.10.1 Patched (2009-12-21 r50814)
>> i386-pc-mingw32
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United
>> States.1252
>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
>>
>> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> HTH,
>> Jorge
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Tal Galili <> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello dear R help group,
>>>
>>> I am trying to read a .txt file, with Hebrew column names, while  
>>> keeping
>>> the
>>> column names looking well in R - but without success.
>>>
>>> I uploaded an example file to:
>>> http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt
>>>
>>> And am trying the command:
>>> read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt", header = T,  
>>> sep =
>>> "\t")
>>>
>>> This returns me with:
>>>
>>> X.....ª X...ª...... X...œ....
>>> 1      12          97         6
>>> 2     123         354        44
>>> 3       6           1         3
>>>
>>> Instead of:
>>>
>>> אחת     שתיים   שלוש
>>> 12      97      6
>>> 123     354     44
>>> 6       1       3
>>>
>>>
>>> Any suggestion or clarification will be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Tal
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT