Just to clarify: The encoding didn't come through in the email. print("????????????") is meant to be a bunch of random greek characters.
Ned.
-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Ned Harding
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 11:35 AM
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] R CMD BATCH Unicode
Hey,
I am looking for some help using Unicode with R CMD BATCH on windows. In particular I would like my input and output files to be UTF-8 encoded. My command line looks like this:
r CMD BATCH --encoding=UTF-8 in.txt out.txt
in.txt is utf-8 encoded and contains:
print("????????????")
out.txt gets:
+ <ERROR: re-encoding failure from encoding 'UTF-8'>
What is the proper way to specify encoding on the command line?
Thanks in advance,
Ned.