[R-SIG-Mac] Encoding issue with text output from R
Federico Calboli
f.calboli at imperial.ac.uk
Thu Jan 31 18:24:10 CET 2013
Heve you tried opening the file in TextEdit, save it, and open it in Word after?
BW
F
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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