[R] Unicode notation \x000

Christoph Heibl
Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:57:51 -0000

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.

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)"

(1) Why is there a difference between sourcing and package installation?
(2) How can I fix this?
(3) Perhaps there is a more reasonable way for doing this?


I am using R_2.7.1.

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Christoph Heibl

Systematic Botany
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen
Menzinger Str. 67
D-80638 M?nchen
GERMANY

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