[R] How to read.table with “Hebrew” column names (in R)?

Petr PIKAL petr.pikal at precheza.cz
Fri Mar 19 09:12:19 CET 2010 

Hi

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.11.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-03-09 r51229) 
i386-pc-mingw32 

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Hebrew_Israel.1255  LC_CTYPE=Hebrew_Israel.1255 
[3] LC_MONETARY=Hebrew_Israel.1255 LC_NUMERIC=C 
[5] LC_TIME=Hebrew_Israel.1255 

attached base packages:
[1] stats     grDevices datasets  grid      utils     graphics  methods 
[8] base 

other attached packages:
[1] reshape_0.8.3  plyr_0.1.9     proto_0.3-8    lattice_0.18-3 fun_1.0  

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] ggplot2_0.8.3 tools_2.11.0

Regards
Petr


r-help-bounces at r-project.org napsal dne 19.03.2010 08:35:59:

> Hello William, Ista and other R-help members,
> 
> The code you suggested:
> read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt",encoding="UTF-8"
> ,check.names=FALSE, header = T, sep = "\t")
> Works for me the same way it does for you: I can read the data in
> (finally!), but some of the ways for using it fails (such as the 
printing,
> and the attempt at including column names in "lm")
> 
> So first thanks for the help!
> 
> Second, could you please supply your  sessionInfo() ?
> I wonder how your locale is compared to that of Ista, since it looks as 
if
> for Ista there is no problem with the Hebrew.
> 
> Thanks for helping!
> Tal
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----------------Contact
> Details:-------------------------------------------------------
> Contact me: Tal.Galili at gmail.com |  972-52-7275845
> Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) |
> www.r-statistics.com (English)
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:42 AM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at tibco.com> 
wrote:
> 
> > I tried this on R 2.11.0 unstable (2010-03-07 r51225) using
> > encoding="UTF-8" and check.names=FALSE in read.table().
> > It seemed to basically work, except that the data.frame/matrix 
printing
> > routine wants to print the Unicode codes for the characters
> > in the names:
> >
> >   > data1 <- read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt",
> >       header = TRUE, sep = "\t", encoding="UTF-8", check.names=FALSE)
> >   > data1 # I see Unicode codes, presumably the correct ones
> >     <U+05D0><U+05D7><U+05EA> <U+05E9><U+05EA><U+05D9><U+05D9><U+05DD>
> >   1                       12                                       97
> >   2                      123                                      354
> >   3                        6                                        1
> >     <U+05E9><U+05DC><U+05D5><U+05E9>
> >   1                                6
> >   2                               44
> >   3                                3
> >   > colnames(data1) # I see Hebrew strings (in R the first starts with
> > aleph)
> >   [1] "אחת"   "שתיים" "שלוש"
> >   > colnames(data)[1]
> >   [1] "אחת"
> >   > strsplit(colnames(data)[1], "")[[1]][1]
> >   [1] "א"
> >   > data1[,"שתיים"]
> >   [1]  97 354   1
> >
> > I'm writing this in Outlook in the English (American) locale
> > and the copy-n-paste from the R gui window to the Outlook window
> > of the Hebrew letters reversed the whole line of them (reversing
> > the characters in each name and the names in the line), which I
> > why I showed a subset of the names and a substring of the first name.
> >
> > However, when I try to use lm() with this data.frame then I run into
> > trouble, which is probably the same problem as I see in the
> > data.frame printing:
> >
> >   > lm(`שתיים` ~ `שלוש`)
> >   Error: \uxxxx sequences not supported inside backticks (line 1)
> >
> > Bill Dunlap
> > Spotfire, TIBCO Software
> > wdunlap tibco.com
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org
> > > [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Tal Galili
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 2:41 PM
> > > To: r-help at r-project.org
> > > Subject: [R] How to read.table with “Hebrew” column names (in 
R)?
> > >
> > > (I am reposting this question after a few months without a
> > > solution...)
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am trying to read a .txt file, with Hebrew column names, but 
without
> > > success.
> > >
> > > I uploaded an example file to: http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt
> > >
> > > And tried 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:
> > >
> > > × ×—×ª ×©×ª×™×™×    שלוש
> > > 12  97  6
> > > 123 354 44
> > > 6   1   3
> > >
> > >
> > >  Trying to use something like:
> > >
> > > read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt",fileEncodin
> > > g ="iso8859-8")
> > >
> > > Has resulted in:
> > >
> > >  V1
> > > 1  ?
> > > Warning messages:
> > > 1: In read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt", 
fileEncoding
> > > = "iso8859-8") :
> > >
> > >   invalid input found on input connection
> > > 'http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt'
> > > 2: In read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt", 
fileEncoding
> > > = "iso8859-8") :
> > >
> > >   incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on
> > > 'http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt'
> > >
> > > While also trying this:
> > >
> > > Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL", "en_US.UTF-8")
> > >
> > > Or this:
> > >
> > > Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL",
> > > "en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8")
> > >
> > > Get's me this:
> > >
> > > [1] ""
> > > Warning message:
> > > In Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL", "en_US.UTF-8") :
> > >
> > >   OS reports request to set locale to "en_US.UTF-8" cannot be 
honored
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > My output for:
> > >
> > > l10n_info()
> > >
> > > Is:
> > >
> > > $MBCS
> > > [1] FALSE
> > >
> > > $`UTF-8`
> > > [1] FALSE
> > >
> > > $`Latin-1`
> > > [1] TRUE
> > >
> > > $codepage
> > > [1] 1252
> > >
> > > And for:
> > >
> > > Sys.getlocale()
> > >
> > > Is:
> > >
> > > [1] "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"
> > >
> > > Finally, here is the > sessionInfo()
> > >
> > > R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
> > >
> > > i386-pc-mingw32
> > >
> > > locale:
> > > [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1255  LC_CTYPE=English_United
> > > States.1252    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
> > >
> > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> > > [1] tools_2.10.1
> > >
> > >
> > > Any suggestion or clarification will be appreciated.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > Tal
> > >
> > > ----------------Contact
> > > Details:-------------------------------------------------------
> > > Contact me: Tal.Galili at gmail.com |  972-52-7275845
> > > Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il
> > > (Hebrew) |
> > > www.r-statistics.com (English)
> > > --------------------------------------------------------------
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