[R-SIG-Mac] [R] data frames with å, ä, and ö (=non-ASCII-characters) from windows to mac os x
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Fri Jan 16 14:53:27 CET 2009
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, David Winsemius wrote:
> It displays sensibly (at least I think so, not being a reader of any
> Scandinavian language) on my Mac (10.5.6).
I think that is because your email client re-encoded it (as did mine),
always a hazard of email. It was marked as iso-8859-1. Email, unlike
text files, can have the encoding marked.
>
>> Länkarta <-
> + structure(list(LANKOD = structure(c(11L, 19L, 10L, 13L, 21L,
> + 7L, 9L, 18L, 8L, 3L, 16L, 6L, 5L, 4L, 15L, 2L, 20L, 17L, 1L,
> + 14L, 12L), .Label = c("AB", "AC", "BD", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G",
> + "H", "I", "K", "M", "N", "O", "S", "T", "U", "W", "X", "Y", "Z"
> + ), class = "factor"), Län = structure(c(1L, 4L, 3L, 5L, 6L, 7L,
> + 8L, 2L, 9L, 10L, 20L, 21L, 13L, 14L, 15L, 16L, 17L, 18L, 12L,
> + 19L, 11L), .Label = c("Blekinge län", "Dalarnas län", "Gotlands län",
> + "Gävleborgs län", "Hallands län", "Jämtlands län", "Jönköpings län",
> + "Kalmar län", "Kronobergs län", "Norrbottens län", "Skåne län",
> + "Stockholms län", "Södermanlands län", "Uppsala län", "Värmlands län",
> + "Västerbottens län", "Västernorrlands län", "Västmanlands län",
> + "Västra Götalands län", "Örebro län", "Östergötlands län"), class =
> + "factor")), .Names = c("LANKOD",
> + "Län"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c("0", "1", "2", "3",
> + "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11", "12", "13", "14", "15",
> + "16", "17", "18", "19", "20"))
>> Länkarta
> LANKOD Län
> 0 K Blekinge län
> 1 X Gävleborgs län
> 2 I Gotlands län
> 3 N Hallands län
> 4 Z Jämtlands län
> 5 F Jönköpings län
> 6 H Kalmar län
> 7 W Dalarnas län
> 8 G Kronobergs län
> 9 BD Norrbottens län
> 10 T Örebro län
> 11 E Östergötlands län
> 12 D Södermanlands län
> 13 C Uppsala län
> 14 S Värmlands län
> 15 AC Västerbottens län
> 16 Y Västernorrlands län
> 17 U Västmanlands län
> 18 AB Stockholms län
> 19 O Västra Götalands län
> 20 M Skåne län
>>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.8.1 Patched (2009-01-07 r47515)
> i386-apple-darwin9.6.0
>
> locale:
> en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> (An etiquette note: It is considered impolite to cross post to both the
> r-help and r-sig-mac lists.)
Not just impolite, inconsiderate of the time and resources of others:
you are asked not to do so on the mailing lists top page.
> --
> David Winsemius
>
> On Jan 16, 2009, at 8:13 AM, Gustaf Rydevik wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I ran into this issue previously and managed to solve it, but I've
>> forgotten how and am getting frustrated...
>>
>> I have a data frame (see below) with scandinavian characters in R
>> (2.7.1) running on a Win Xp-computer. I save the data frame in an
>> RData-file on a usb stick, and load() it in R (2.8.0) running on OS X
>> 10.5. Now the name of the data frame and all factor labels with
>> scandinavian characters are scrambled. How do I make R in OS X read my
>> data frame?
>>> From what I've managed to find in the list archives and the FAQ I either
>> 1) run
>> Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL","en_US.UTF-8") ### Doesn't change anything
>> or
>> 2) run
>> defaults write org.R-project.R force.LANG en_US.UTF-8
>> in the terminal, which doesn't help either.
>> I must admit that I couldn't quite follow what documentation i found
>> on locales, so I might have messed up somewhere along the line.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance for your help!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Gustaf
>>
>>
>> --------
>>
>> Länkarta <-
>> structure(list(LANKOD = structure(c(11L, 19L, 10L, 13L, 21L,
>> 7L, 9L, 18L, 8L, 3L, 16L, 6L, 5L, 4L, 15L, 2L, 20L, 17L, 1L,
>> 14L, 12L), .Label = c("AB", "AC", "BD", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G",
>> "H", "I", "K", "M", "N", "O", "S", "T", "U", "W", "X", "Y", "Z"
>> ), class = "factor"), Län = structure(c(1L, 4L, 3L, 5L, 6L, 7L,
>> 8L, 2L, 9L, 10L, 20L, 21L, 13L, 14L, 15L, 16L, 17L, 18L, 12L,
>> 19L, 11L), .Label = c("Blekinge län", "Dalarnas län", "Gotlands län",
>> "Gävleborgs län", "Hallands län", "Jämtlands län", "Jönköpings län",
>> "Kalmar län", "Kronobergs län", "Norrbottens län", "Skåne län",
>> "Stockholms län", "Södermanlands län", "Uppsala län", "Värmlands län",
>> "Västerbottens län", "Västernorrlands län", "Västmanlands län",
>> "Västra Götalands län", "Örebro län", "Östergötlands län"), class =
>> "factor")), .Names = c("LANKOD",
>> "Län"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c("0", "1", "2", "3",
>> "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11", "12", "13", "14", "15",
>> "16", "17", "18", "19", "20"))
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Gustaf Rydevik, M.Sci.
>> tel: +46(0)703 051 451
>> address:Essingetorget 40,112 66 Stockholm, SE
>> skype:gustaf_rydevik
>>
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