Hi William.

(Thanks to Petr Pikal)

Please try:

Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL", "Hebrew")
# And
a<- read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt",encoding="UTF-8"
,check.names=FALSE, header = T, sep = "\t")   # Notice the use of encoding
a


And let me know if that works...


The only question I have left is how can you set
Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL", "Hebrew")
As the default of R when it is being loaded.

Cheers,
Tal

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On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Tal Galili <tal.galili@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:42 AM, William Dunlap <wdunlap@tibco.com>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
>>     <U+05D0><U+05D7><U+05EA> <U+05E9><U+05EA><U+05D9><U+05D9><U+05DD>
>>   1                       12                                       97
>>   2                      123                                      354
>>   3                        6                                        1
>>     <U+05E9><U+05DC><U+05D5><U+05E9>
>>   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.....Âª X...Âª...... 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
>> >
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