Message-ID: <9E717243-9D11-4512-A9AE-D943F324CD25@comcast.net>
Date: 2010-01-01T22:43:10Z
From: David Winsemius
Subject: How to use read.table with Hebrew column names ?
In-Reply-To: <440d7af41001011347v731caa59xb88b7934dc524a6e@mail.gmail.com>
On Jan 1, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Tal Galili wrote:
> Hello dear R help group,
>
> I am trying to read a .txt file, with Hebrew column names, while
> keeping the
> column names looking well in R - but without success.
>
> I uploaded an example file to:
> http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt
>
> And am trying the command:
> read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt", header = T, sep
> = "\t")
>
> This returns me with:
>
> X.....? X...?...... X...?....
> 1 12 97 6
> 2 123 354 44
> 3 6 1 3
Unable to reproduce:
> read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt", header = T, sep =
+ "\t")
??? ????? ????
1 12 97 6
2 123 354 44
3 6 1 3
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.1 RC (2009-12-09 r50695)
x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] cluster_1.12.1 grid_2.10.1 Hmisc_3.7-0 lattice_0.17-26
tools_2.10.1
>
I suspect you will need to be more specific about your setup
details... OS ... encodings ... the sort of think that comes from
sessionInfo.
>
> Instead of:
>
> ??? ????? ????
> 12 97 6
> 123 354 44
> 6 1 3
>
>
> Any suggestion or clarification will be appreciated.
>
> Best,
> Tal
David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT