On Oct 6, 2010, at 16:13 , Eitan Tzelgov wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to read a matrix with row names in Hebrew, but I am unable to
read
> the Hebrew words, e.g.:
>
> ???????????? -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01
> 9.854603e-01 1.111321e+00
> ?????????? -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01 7.421092e-01
> 3.439690e-01
> ???????????? -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01
> 1.050982e+00 1.125970e+00
> ???????? -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01 -5.607143e-01
> -5.266479e-01
> ???????? -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01 5.390752e-01
> 1.210426e+00
> ?????????????? -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01
> 2.756580e-01 7.413793e-01
> ???????????? -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01
> 1.411763e+00 1.110181e+00
> ?????????? -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01 -5.583328e-01
> -5.942577e-01
> ???????? -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01 1.329662e+00
> 8.314318e-01
> ???????????????? -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01
> -8.652285e-01 -6.453765e-01
> ???????????? -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01 3.133604e-01
> -3.698027e-01
> ?????????? -1.544317e-02 -2.398621e-01 8.353492e-01
> 4.940267e-01
> ????? ?? -1.544317e-02 4.375258e+00 -8.652285e-01
> -6.453765e-01
>
> I have tried to change the system locale to hebrew, i.e.,
> Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL", "Hebrew"), and tried to read
the fiele transforming it
> to a talbe using as.talbe using:
> beta<- read.table(x, header=T, sep="\t",
encoding="UTF-8")
>
> but I get the follwonig error message.
>
> Error in read.table(x, header = T, sep = "\t", encoding =
"UTF-8") :
> 'file' must be a character string or connection
>
> After moving back to english, sessionInfo () gives:
> R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
> i386-pc-mingw32
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.10.0
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on to read the Hebrew content?
Not really, but I notice that the error message relates to the filename, not the
contents... Whatever x is, it is not the name of the file.
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Peter Dalgaard
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