Chinese character
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, john zhao wrote:
Hello R-help team, I am a R user in China. I just downloaded the latest R which is R2001 for Windows. This new version can not store Chinese character which the previous version R 1.9.1 does. Specifically when I enter
The previous version was 2.0.0.
x<-"²âÊÔ"
then type "x", I got
x
[1] "\262\342\312\324" .
That is because your locale is saying those are non-printable characters. It's an OS issue, not an R issue (and has been discussed before for R 2.0.0).
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