Hi,
I am writing an Sweave document and am using 'xtable' to make frequency tables
of diagnoses of people undergoing cholecystectomy. Some of these diagnoses
contain Danish characters ("æ", "ø", and "å"), and these characters are all
garbled in the Latex document after I run Sweave. The odd thing is, everything
looks absolutely right in the R console, and if I enter the same Danish
characters in a new variable, the new variable produces no problems?!
Therefore, I cannot offer a reproducible example, but I am hoping nonetheless
that someone can point me towards a solution.
To illustrate:
> library(xtable)
> library(Hmisc)
> rm(list=ls())
> load("u:/kirurgi/cholecystit/Chol_oprenset.Rdata")
>
> test2 <- chol$nydiag[3] # This 3rd observation contains a diagnosis
> with Danish characters ("Kræft i fordøjelsessystemet", meaning
> gastrointestinal cancer).
>
> print(xtable(table(test2)))
% latex table generated in R 2.8.1 by xtable 1.5-4 package
% Mon Jan 26 23:31:37 2009
\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{rr}
\hline
& test2 \\
\hline
Kræft i fordøjelsessystemet & 1 \\ # It looks right here, but in the
.tex-file it says "Kræft i fordøjelsessystemet"
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}
> print(xtable(table("Kræft i fordøjelsessystemet"))) # This, on the other
> hand, works like a charm.
% latex table generated in R 2.8.1 by xtable 1.5-4 package
% Mon Jan 26 23:36:53 2009
\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{rr}
\hline
& V1 \\
\hline
Kræft i fordøjelsessystemet & 1 \\ # See, no problems here!
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}
I am using Windows Vista 64-bit and MikTex 2.7.
Best regards,
Peter.
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
i386-pc-mingw32
locale:
LC_COLLATE=Danish_Denmark.1252;LC_CTYPE=Danish_Denmark.1252;LC_MONETARY=Danish_Denmark.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Danish_Denmark.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] Hmisc_3.4-4 foreign_0.8-30 xtable_1.5-4
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] cluster_1.11.12 grid_2.8.1 lattice_0.17-20 tools_2.8.1
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