Hi David,
Thank you for responding, but it didn't work.

I get the following error:

> [1] X.

<0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)

Warning messages:

1: In read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt", header = T,  :

  invalid input found on input connection '
> http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt'

2: In read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt", header = T,  :

  incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on '
> http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt'




My OS is:
PC - windows XP SP2

My session info is:

> 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
> base


> other attached packages:

[1] rcom_2.2-1      rscproxy_1.3-1  svSocket_0.9-43 svMisc_0.9-48
> TinnR_1.0.3     R2HTML_1.59-1

[7] 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




I would like to emphasis that my question was posed to me by several R users
here in Israel, so the solution to which is sought out here by more then
just me :)

Thanks all,
Tal










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On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 12:49 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net>wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> ----------------Contact
>> Details:-------------------------------------------------------
>> Contact me: Tal.Galili@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 Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Jorge Ivan Velez
>> <jorgeivanvelez@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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----------------Contact
>>>> Details:-------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Contact me: Tal.Galili@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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>
> David Winsemius, MD
> Heritage Laboratories
> West Hartford, CT
>
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