[R-SIG-Mac] Encoding issue with text output from R

[Federico Calboli]

Heve you tried opening the file in TextEdit, save it, and open it in Word after?

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On 31 Jan 2013, at 17:17, Fisher Dennis <fisher at plessthan.com> wrote:

> R 2.15.2
> OS X ML
> 
> Colleagues,
> 
> I am "sink"ing output from statistical tests to a text file:
> 	sink(FILENAME)
> 	SOMETEST()
> 	sink()
> 
> When I open the file with TextEdit, the output from lm() contains:
> 	Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 
> 
> When I open the identical file in Word (2008), that same text appears as:
> 	Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1 
> When Word opens, it asks about the selection of encoding for the file.  I tried a number of options and all lead to the same distorted text.
> 
> Any idea how to resolve this (other than to ignore Word!)?
> 
> Dennis  
> 
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