On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, peter dalgaard wrote:
On Jan 3, 2011, at 08:32 , Luca Meyer wrote:
Being italians when writing comments/instructions we use accented letters -
like à, ò, è, etc.... when running R scripts using such characters I get and
error saying:
invalid multibyte character in parser
I have been looking at the help and searched the r-help archives but I haven't
find anything that I could intelligibly apply to my case.
Can anyone suggest a fix for this error?
The most likely cause is that your scripts are written in an "8 bit
ASCII" encoding (Latin-1 or -9, most likely), while R is running in
a UTF8 locale. If that is the cause, the fix is to standardize
things to use the same locale. You can convert the encoding of your
source file using the iconv utility (in a Terminal window).
Or use the 'encoding' argument of source() to tell R what the encoding
is, e.g. encoding="latin1" or "latin-9" (the inconsistency being in
the iconv used on Macs, not in R).
-pd
Thanks,
Luca
Mr. Luca Meyer
www.lucameyer.com
IBM SPSS Statistics release 19.0.0
R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)
Mac OS X 10.6.5 (10H574) - kernel Darwin 10.5.0
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