From Roger.Bivand at nhh.no  Tue Dec 28 09:08:33 2004
From: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no (Roger Bivand)
Date: Tue Dec 28 09:08:44 2004
Subject: [Rd] Print()ing Latin 1 in console (PR#7452)
In-Reply-To: <20041228010404.BC29BEB67@slim.kubism.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412280902460.17468-100000@reclus.nhh.no>

Please see https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-November/060119.html 
for the explanation and solution (2.0.1 patched) regarding this Windows 
infelicity. Try 2.0.1 patched, and see if it resolves your problem.

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 arnima@u.washington.edu wrote:

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> Latin 1 characters are handled correctly by many R functions, but print() 
> behaves unpredictably in this respect. Using ten Icelandic characters as 
> an example:
> 
>   ICE <- c("?", "?", "?", "?", "?", "?", "?", "?", "?", "?")
>   # or, in case of browser problems
>   ICE <- c("\301", "\320", "\311", "\315", "\323",
>            "\332", "\335", "\336", "\306", "\326")
>   ice <- tolower(ICE)
> 
>   cat(ICE, "\n")        # correct
>   cat(ice, "\n")        # correct
>   ICE                   # some octal codes
>   ice                   # some octal codes
>   data.frame(ICE, ice)  # some octal codes
> 
> It would be preferable if the characters in that last data frame were 
> human-readable. This bug was not present in R 1.9.0.
> 
> Thanks,
> Arni
> 
> R 2.0.1 on WinXP
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Roger Bivand
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[Rd] Print()ing Latin 1 in console (PR#7452)
Roger Bivand