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I'm using cygwin to backup files from a windows machine to a unix host with rsync. I originally uploaded the bulk of the files using a windows ftp client, and then planned on doing updates nightly with rsync. Some of the filenames have strange characters in them, such as the trademark symbol, and other characters, such as European letters. Rsync doesn't like the filenames as they exist on

Hello, I would like to place region names (or abbreviations if space is too limited) on a map. I have tried the following, copying and adapting various examples I have seen but without success. The first example is self-contained, but the second one requires the .shp file, which can retrieved at http://www.gadm.org/country. ----- Example 1 ----- library(sp) con <-

Hi - I'm backing up a Windows client which has a number of Outlook mail archives (pst files) and annoyingly whenever you open Outlook it updates the modification dates of all pst files - even if you don't change any of the emails contained in the archive. What's the best way of backing up these files without having them fill up my backup disk with mostly identical copies of

Full_Name: James Howison Version: 2.9.2 OS: Mac OS X 10.5.8 Submission from: (NULL) (128.2.222.163) For quite a while now I have been unable to use Package Manager to install programs. I get the spinning wheel and long lock ups. This happens when I hit, "get list", but that eventually returns, seemingly successfully. However it also happens when I try to install a package, the whole

Dear R-help list.I'm not big on programming, but I have a weird error on a couple of packages when trying to install them. I hope someone could help me :-).System: MacBook Pro (1.0) with OS X 10.6.4 R: Installed from web binaries: R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) > Sys.getlocale() [1] "en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8" I have been trying all day to install the