R help - Nov 2003 - Accents in R

Hi,

How can I include accents and signs like '?' '?' in the plots
generated by R?

I try, but R automatically transforms the name 
ex:
> countries <- c("M?xico", "Espa?a")
> countries
[1] "M\216?xico" "Espa\216?a"
>
I've seen in some Spanish texts about R how is it normal to include labels
of
the plots and other names with accents, but I can't.

I'm using R 1.8.0 in a Mandrake 9.0

Thanks,

Xavier

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On Monday 17 November 2003 17:14, Xavier Fern?ndez i Mar?n
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I include accents and signs like '?' '?' in the
plots generated by
> R?
>
> I try, but R automatically transforms the name
>
> ex:
> > countries <- c("M?xico", "Espa?a")
> > countries
>
> [1] "M\216?xico" "Espa\216?a"
>
>
> I've seen in some Spanish texts about R how is it normal to include
labels
> of the plots and other names with accents, but I can't.
>
> I'm using R 1.8.0 in a Mandrake 9.0
>
> Thanks,
>
> Xavier
>
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Xavier Fern?ndez i Mar?n <xavier.fim at eresmas.net> writes:
> Hi,
> 
> How can I include accents and signs like '?' '?' in the
plots generated by R?
> 
> I try, but R automatically transforms the name 
> ex:
> > countries <- c("M?xico", "Espa?a")
> > countries
> [1] "M\216?xico" "Espa\216?a"
> >
> 
> I've seen in some Spanish texts about R how is it normal to include
labels of
> the plots and other names with accents, but I can't.
> 
> I'm using R 1.8.0 in a Mandrake 9.0
You'll need to get rid of UTF-8 encoding, since R doesn't know how to
deal with it. I'm not sure of the details on Mandrake, but I suspect
you need to diddle /etc/sysconfig/i18n or set some environment
variables (among the ones listed by "locale").

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On 17 Nov 2003 at 17:14, Xavier Fern?ndez i Mar?n wrote:

On my windows XP machine I get
> help.search("locale")
> ?locales
help() for `locales' is shown in browser
> Sys.getlocale()
[1] "LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United 
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United 
States.1252"
> #Sys.setlocale()
> c("Espa?a", "Nicarag?ense")
[1] "Espa?a"       "Nicarag?ense"
> 
You need to find out which locales you can set in Mandrake. The 
locale shown above
is the default when I start up my R.

Kjetil Halvorsen
> Hi,
> 
> How can I include accents and signs like '?' '?' in the
plots
> generated by R?
> 
> I try, but R automatically transforms the name 
> ex:
> > countries <- c("M?xico", "Espa?a")
> > countries
> [1] "M\216?xico" "Espa\216?a"
> >
> 
> I've seen in some Spanish texts about R how is it normal to include
> labels of the plots and other names with accents, but I can't.
> 
> I'm using R 1.8.0 in a Mandrake 9.0
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Xavier
> 
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