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

[MacQueen, Don]

Something like this might help:

    Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_ALL", locale = "C")
 

check
  Sys.getlocale()
beforehand.

-Don


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On 1/31/13 9:17 AM, "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  
>
>Dennis Fisher MD
>P < (The "P Less Than" Company)
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>
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