I suspect that R is reading the data just fine, but is not displaying it as you want to see it. Read the R Windows FAQ 3.3.
"Dan Winetsky" <dwine...@gmail.com> wrote: >To whom it may concern, > >I have a database (an SPSS .sav file) with some vectors containing >strings >of words in Cyrillic. My console, however, doesn't seem to read >Cyrillics. >If I type ������������ into the console it shows ������������ as I'm >typing. Please >note that courier new, my console's default font can encode Cyrillics >elsewhere on my computer (e.g. MSWord and Chrome, from which this email >is >being sent). Please help me to understand why R can't do this. > >Thanks, >Dan > >-- >Daniel Winetsky >MD, MS Candidate >Stanford University School of Medicine > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ 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.