How would I go by doing that? I have tried with:
source("file.R", encoding="it_IT.UTF-8")
But I get
Error in file(file, "r", encoding = encoding) :
unsupported conversion from 'it_IT.UTF-8' to ''
Thanks,
Luca
PS: "it_IT.UTF-8" is what I get under locale when I run sessionInfo()
Il giorno 03/gen/2011, alle ore 09.48, Prof Brian Ripley ha scritto:
> 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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