R help - Aug 2008 - encoding accentsand tildes in R Macosx

Hello,
In R under  Mac OS X 10.5.4 I've had problems when I've tried to read a
data.frame with characters including tildes and accents.
For instance Floreña is changed to Flore\x96a and Ranchería is changed to
Rancher\x92a
In the code: 
section<-read.table('Sectiondic.txt',sep='\t',header=T,stringsAsFactors=F,encoding="
")
I've changed the  "encoding" argument but I have not could find
the solution.
Any suggestion?

Thanks a lot

Carlos Cuartas


      
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Hi Carlos:

I think you got a encoding problem.
Maybe is esier to convert it.

I don't know how to convert in Mac OS, but
in linux you can use "iconv" that converts many codes
to other.

Is the original file form a windos$ OS system?
Maybe the encoding is in windows-1256 and you need
to convert to a compatible MAC enconding.

Hope this helps.

Kennneth
El dom, 10-08-2008 a las 22:14 -0700, Carlos Cuartas
escribi?:
> Hello,
> In R under  Mac OS X 10.5.4 I've had problems when I've tried to
read a data.frame with characters including tildes and accents.
> For instance Florea is changed to Flore\x96a and Ranchera is changed to
Rancher\x92a
> In the code: 
section<-read.table('Sectiondic.txt',sep='\t',header=T,stringsAsFactors=F,encoding="
")
> I've changed the  "encoding" argument but I have not could
find the solution.
> Any suggestion?
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
> Carlos Cuartas
> 
> 
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