Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0411181512360.3711@gannet.stats>
Date: 2004-11-18T15:15:05Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Chinese character
In-Reply-To: <0E6C568558A9C64280EC171DAB66E3E3018595D9@mail.ami-group.com.cn>
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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