Sorry all, for not posting a minimal example. I am running R on Mac OS X snow leopard with Komodo edit / Sciviews-R. The problem is that the code does not work any more if there is an umlaut in my R code. The error message is some strange mixture of german and english, so this what the error message is supposed to look like: "Invalid multibyte character in Parser line 195" . Allan´s example works as a standalone, with his code I get the following error message. Maybe this is a mac problem ...
Error in parse(text = chunk) : Unexptected entry in "x <- data.frame(GeschÂ" Thx for any help in advance best matt On 22.07.2010, at 14:47, Allan Engelhardt wrote: > A standalone example is always helpful. The following works for me, so I am > probably not understanding your problem: > > ---[BEGIN: umlaut.Rnw]--- > \documentclass[a4paper]{article} > \usepackage{ucs} > \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} > > \begin{document} > > <<test,echo=TRUE>>= > x <- data.frame(Geschäftslage=1:10) > summary(x) > @ > \end{document} > ---[END: umlaut.Rnw]--- > > $ R CMD Sweave umlaut.Rnw > $ R CMD pdflatex umlaut.tex > $ gnome-open umlaut.pdf > > Allan > > > On 22/07/10 13:19, Bunny, lautloscrew.com wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I use Sweave to create my reports. Unfortunately my script crashes whenever >> I my R code contains special characters like umlauts. >> Is there a way to to escape special characters in Sweave... This is the line >> that crashes Sweave: >> >> gl_bybranch = ddply(new_wans,.(period,Branchen), function(X) >> data.frame(Geschäftslage=mean(X$sentiment))) >> >> Unfortunately I can't just rename it, because I it´s displayed in the legend >> of graphics later on. >> >> Thx for any suggestions! >> >> best >> >> matt >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.