[R] non-ascii characters in R output

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 18/02/2011 5:58 PM, Matt Shotwell wrote:
> OK, looks like my web browser does render non-ascii characters output by
> R when it's given the encoding explicitly. This works for me:<meta
> http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>. So
> that's another solution, but not a general one.

I don't understand your final comment.  What is not general about 
declaring how the file is encoded?

Duncan Murdoch

>
> -Matt
>
> On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 12:47 -0600, Matt Shotwell wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I'd like to automatically output text from R to HTML. In doing this I've
>> run into trouble with non-ascii characters, as my browser (and
>> presumably others) does not render such characters correctly. For
>> example, the 'fancy' single quotes associated with summary.lm are
>> multi-byte characters on my platform. This particular problem is solved
>> by options(useFancyQuotes=FALSE). But now I'm concerned about other
>> non-ascii characters. As an overkill maybe, my current solution involves
>> capture.output and iconv(..., to="ASCII//TRANSLIT"). Are there other
>> sources of non-ascii character? Is there a better or general solution?
>>
>> Best,
>> Matt
>>
>>   >  sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)
>> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>>    [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>    [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>>    [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>>    [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>>    [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] tools_2.12.1
>>
>
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