[R] R CMD BATCH Unicode

[Ned Harding]

So just to clarify - there is no way to use R CMD BATCH on windows with Unicode?  Any advice of how to use R in a batch mode with Unicode inputs and outputs?

Ned.

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On 25/06/2013 20:35, Ned Harding wrote:
> Just to clarify: The encoding didn't come through in the email.  print("éíôåëëåãåâáè") is meant to be a bunch of random greek characters.

In that case the message is likely correct.  You failed to give us the 'at a minimum information' required by the posting guide, but you can only have input scripts in the locale encoding (and there are no UTF-8 locales on Windows).  So unless you were in a Greek locale, the re-encoding should have failed.

> Ned.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Ned Harding
> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 11:35 AM
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> Subject: [R] R CMD BATCH Unicode
>
> Hey,
>
> I am looking for some help using Unicode with R CMD BATCH on windows.  In particular I would like my input and output files to be UTF-8 encoded.  My command line looks like this:
>
> r CMD BATCH --encoding=UTF-8 in.txt out.txt
>
> in.txt is utf-8 encoded and contains:
>
> print("éíôåëëåãåâáè")
>
> out.txt gets:
>
> + <ERROR: re-encoding failure from encoding 'UTF-8'>
>
> What is the proper way to specify encoding on the command line?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ned.
>
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Please do, and note what it says about HTML mail, too.



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