[R] read.csv : double quoted numbers

Philipp Pagel p.pagel at wzw.tum.de
Fri Aug 22 10:21:31 CEST 2008


> gsub fails on this file due to a particular value  "C￴te d'Ivoire"
> which is present in the file. This is when my locale is set to
> en_US.utf8 but when I set locale to C it (gsub) works.

Have a look at ?file, especially the section on Encoding. 

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	Philipp

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Technische Universität München
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