[R] Writing Persian (Arabic) in a data frame

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 28/07/2020 2:01 a.m., Vahid Borji wrote:
> I am trying to make a data frame including two vectors. The first vector is
> a vector of Persian names, and the second vector is a vector of numbers. My
> code is as follows:
> 
> A<-data.frame(x=c("مریم","ماریا"),y=c(1,1))
> A
> 
> But when I run these codes I do not receive my desired output. Indeed the
> column of x is not in Persian. The output is like this:
> 
>                           x                 y1
> <U+0645><U+0631><U+06CC><U+0645> 12
> <U+0645><U+0627><U+0631><U+06CC><U+0627> 1
> 
> I want to have the column of x in *Persian language*. Could you please help
> me how I can do it?

You need to work on a system that uses a UTF-8 locale.  Otherwise R 
tries to express strings in the local encoding, finds that won't work, 
and shows Unicode escapes instead.

For decades Windows had no UTF-8 locale, so your only choice was to move 
to a different OS.  There are rumours now that it finally has one, but I 
don't know how to enable it, and I'm not certain that R will handle it 
properly:  you may need a very recent version (perhaps unreleased) for R 
not to automatically assume that Windows can't do it.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> (I should say when I make a vector of Persian names and I run it, I receive
> the correct output in Persian, like below:
> 
> x=c("مریم","ماریا")
> x[1] "مریم"  "ماریا"
> 
> But in regard to the data frame I have the above problem)
> 
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