R help - Oct 2015 - Creating a package with specail caracters

Hi, 

I want to create my own package with a very simple GUI. The problem is that
I need to use special latin characters, as ?,?,?...

The function i have made is:

funcion<-function(){
tt<-tktoplevel()
tktitle(tt)<-"?GUI de estad?stica"
}


The problem is that when i run this function, instead estad?stica, appears
some strange simbols. How can I convert this to latin1??

Thanks!!!:





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> On 15 Oct 2015, at 09:52 , jpara3 <j.para.fernandez at hotmail.com>
wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I want to create my own package with a very simple GUI. The problem is that
> I need to use special latin characters, as ?,?,?...
> 
> The function i have made is:
> 
> funcion<-function(){
> tt<-tktoplevel()
> tktitle(tt)<-"?GUI de estad?stica"
> }
> 
> 
> The problem is that when i run this function, instead estad?stica, appears
> some strange simbols. How can I convert this to latin1??
> 
> Thanks!!!:
> 
> 
I think it is the other way around: Tcl/Tk speaks UTF-8, so if you run R in a
Latin-1 locale, you need to translate the strings to UTF-8. iconv() is your
friend.

I'm a bit puzzled, though. The underlying C function RTcl_ObjFromCharVector
tries to be smart about encodings, and the only way I can reproduce anything
looking like your issue is if I do sneaky things like
> x <- iconv("?GUI de estad?stica", to="latin1")
> Encoding(x) <- "UTF8"
> tktitle(tt)<-x
> x
[1] "\xa1GUI de estad\xedstica"

-pd

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Hi Peter, 

Thanks for your help, but the problem is still happening. 

I have done this:

funcion<-function(){

  tt<-tktoplevel(bg="white")
  x<-iconv("?GUI estad?stica",to="latin1")
  Encoding(x) <- "UTF8"
  tktitle(tt)<-x

}





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languages.

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Country.
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