On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Christoph Heibl wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I am trying to replace Unicode notation of German and Spanish special
> characters (as read in by read.csv from excel spreadsheets) by character
> strings that can be interpreted by LaTeX.
Why? LaTeX can read UTF-8 if you tell it to.
> E.g.:
>
> uni2latex <- function(x){
> x <- gsub("&", "et", x, fixed = TRUE)
> # Deutsch
> x <- gsub("\u0080", "\\\"A", x, fixed = TRUE)
> x <- gsub("\u008a", "\\\"a", x, fixed = TRUE)
> x <- gsub("\u0085", "\\\"O", x, fixed = TRUE)
> x <- gsub("\u009a", "\\\"o", x, fixed = TRUE)
> x <- gsub("\u0086", "\\\"U", x, fixed = TRUE)
> x <- gsub("\u009f", "\\\"u", x, fixed = TRUE)
> x <- gsub("?", "\\ss{}", x, fixed = TRUE)
> # Espa?ol
> x <- gsub("\u0084", "\\~N", x, fixed = TRUE)
> x <- gsub("\u0096", "\\~n", x, fixed = TRUE)
> x <- gsub("?", "\\\'A", x, fixed = TRUE)
> x <- gsub("\u0087", "\\\'a", x, fixed = TRUE)
> x <- gsub("\u0083", "\\\'E", x, fixed = TRUE)
> x <- gsub("\u008e", "\\\'e", x, fixed = TRUE)
> x <- gsub("?", "\\\'I", x, fixed = TRUE)
> x <- gsub("\u0092", "\\\'i", x, fixed = TRUE)
> x <- gsub("?", "\\\'O", x, fixed = TRUE)
> x <- gsub("\u0097", "\\\'o", x, fixed = TRUE)
> x <- gsub("?", "\\\'U", x, fixed = TRUE)
> x <- gsub("\u009c", "\\\'u", x, fixed = TRUE)
> x
> }
>
>
> This function works fine for me if I source from a file, but if I try to
> include it into a package, the package cannot be installed:
>
> "Error in parse(n = -1, file = file) : invalid \uxxxx sequence (line
835)"
And which line is that?
> (1) Why is there a difference between sourcing and package installation?
Quite possibly. What locale are you using to install the package? Mac OS
X terminals seem to default to C.
> (2) How can I fix this?
Set a proper locale.
> (3) Perhaps there is a more reasonable way for doing this?
Yes, fix it in LaTeX.
>
> I am using R_2.7.1.
But the following is not the output from sessionInfo() as requested in the
posting guide.
> Hardware:
> Model Name: MacBook
> Model Identifier: MacBook2,1
> Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
> Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
> Number Of Processors: 1
> Total Number Of Cores: 2
> L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
> Memory: 3 GB
> Bus Speed: 667 MHz
> Boot ROM Version: MB21.00A5.B07
> SMC Version: 1.17f0
> Serial Number: W87187FAYA4
> Sudden Motion Sensor:
> State: Enabled
>
>
>
> ________________________________________________________
>
> Christoph Heibl
>
> Systematic Botany
> Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen
> Menzinger Str. 67
> D-80638 M?nchen
> GERMANY
>
> phone: +49-(0)89-17861-251
> e-mail: heibl at lmu.de
>
> http://www.christophheibl.de/ch-home.html
>
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