[R] problem with sub !

Vladimir Eremeev wl2776 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 25 14:22:21 CEST 2007


Try Sys.setlocale().


marco.R.help marco.R.help wrote:
> 
>  I am trying to use "sub" to replace  patterns  in  a character array that
> contains german names with german special characters. I have the following
> problem:
> 
>>  sub("\\xdf","ss","Wei\xdferitzkreis")
> Error in sub(pattern, replacement, x, ignore.case, extended, fixed,
> useBytes) :
>     input string 1 is invalid in this locale
>>  sub("\xdf","ss","Wei\xdferitzkreis")
> Error in sub(pattern, replacement, x, ignore.case, extended, fixed,
> useBytes) :
>     'pattern' is invalid in this locale
> 
> Does anybody know how to tackle this problem ?
> 

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