[R] How to use read.table with Hebrew column names ?

[David Winsemius]

On Jan 1, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Tal Galili wrote:

> Hello dear R help group,
>
> I am trying to read a .txt file, with Hebrew column names, while  
> keeping the
> column names looking well in R - but without success.
>
> I uploaded an example file to:
> http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt
>
> And am trying the command:
> read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt", header = T, sep  
> = "\t")
>
> This returns me with:
>
>  X.....ª X...ª...... X...œ....
> 1      12          97         6
> 2     123         354        44
> 3       6           1         3

Unable to reproduce:

 > read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt", header = T, sep =
+ "\t")
   אחת שתיים שלוש
1  12    97    6
2 123   354   44
3   6     1    3

 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.1 RC (2009-12-09 r50695)
x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] cluster_1.12.1  grid_2.10.1     Hmisc_3.7-0     lattice_0.17-26  
tools_2.10.1
 >

I suspect you will need to be more specific about your setup  
details... OS ... encodings  ... the sort of think that comes from  
sessionInfo.



>
> Instead of:
>
> אחת	שתיים	שלוש
> 12	97	6
> 123	354	44
> 6	1	3
>
>
> Any suggestion or clarification will be appreciated.
>
> Best,
> Tal


David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT