[R] read.spss, locale and encodings

[Hans Ekbrand]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 07:12:23PM +0200, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> Apparently, you can work around it like this
>
> lc <- Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE")
> Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", "da_DK")
> x <- read.spss("~/Desktop/downloads/test.sav", reencode = "latin1")
> Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", lc)
>
> -- which doesn't strike me as particularly logical, but whatever works....

THANKS a lot Peter! This works perfectly! I had been struggling with
this problem way too long...

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