Thanks Milton,
But your solution would work for a one time problem, but in case I'd have a
variable with Hebrew in it, or many files to process then your solution
wouldn't scale up.

Thanks anyway :)

Tal


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On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 12:34 AM, milton ruser <milton.ruser@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Tal,
>
> You want the colnames in hebrew? Case not, may be you
> can use colnames() to attrib new colnames.
>
> bests
>
> milton
>
> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Tal Galili <tal.galili@gmail.com> 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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