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@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:42 AM, William Dunlap 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 > > 1 12 97 > 2 123 354 > 3 6 1 > > 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@r-project.org > > [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Tal Galili > > Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 2:41 PM > > To: r-help@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...Å“.... > > 1 12 97 6 > > 2 123 354 44 > > 3 6 1 3 > > > > Instead of: > > > > × ×—×ª ×©×ª×™×™× ×©×œ×•×© > > 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@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 > > Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il > > (Hebrew) | > > www.r-statistics.com (English) > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------------------------------- > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]