How to read.table with "Hebrew" column names (in R)?
- by Tal Galili
Hi all,
I am trying to read a .txt file, with Hebrew column names, 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
Instead of:
??? ????? ????
12 97 6
123 354 44
6 1 3
My output for:
l10n_info()
Is:
$MBCS
[1] FALSE
$`UTF-8`
[1] FALSE
$`Latin-1`
[1] TRUE
$codepage
[1] 1252
And for:
Sys.getlocale()
Is:
[1] "LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252"
Can you suggest to me what to try and change to allow me to load the file correctly ?
Update:
Trying to use:
read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt",fileEncoding ="iso8859-8")
Has resulted in:
V1
1 ?
Warning messages:
1: In read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt", fileEncoding = "iso8859-8") :
invalid input found on input connection 'http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt'
2: In read.table("http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt", fileEncoding = "iso8859-8") :
incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'http://www.talgalili.com/files/aa.txt'
While also trying this:
Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL", "en_US.UTF-8")
Or this:
Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL", "en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8")
Get's me this:
[1] ""
Warning message:
In Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL", "en_US.UTF-8") :
OS reports request to set locale to "en_US.UTF-8" cannot be honored
Any suggestion or clarification will be appreciated.
Best,
Tal
