Re: [R] translating HTML character entities to accented characters

2012-08-13 Thread Michael Friendly
ot;, "â", "ã", "ä", "å", "æ", "ç", "è", "é", "ê", "ë", "ì", "í", "î", "ï", "ð", "ñ", "ò", "ó", "ô", "õ"

Re: [R] translating HTML character entities to accented characters

2012-08-12 Thread David L Carlson
"û", "ü", "ý", "þ"), Name = c(""", "'", "&", "<", ">", " ", "¡", "¢", "£", "¤", "¥", "¦", "§", "¨",

Re: [R] translating HTML character entities to accented characters

2012-08-10 Thread Michael Friendly
4352 -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- project.org] On Behalf Of Michael Friendly Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 11:15 AM To: R-help Subject: [R] translating HTML character entities to accented characters I've imported a .csv file wher

Re: [R] translating HTML character entities to accented characters

2012-08-10 Thread David L Carlson
versity College Station, TX 77843-4352 > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Michael Friendly > Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 11:15 AM > To: R-help > Subject: [R] translating HTML character entities

[R] translating HTML character entities to accented characters

2012-08-10 Thread Michael Friendly
I've imported a .csv file where character strings that contained accented characters were written as HTML character entities. Is there a function that works on a vector to translate them back to accented (latin1) characters? Some examples: > grep("&", author$lname, value=TRUE) [1] "Frère de M