[R] Wide character in print?

[Spencer Graves]

Hello:


	  Googling for "Wide characters in print" led me to a discussion that 
pushed me to review the "read.table" help page.  Careful study there 
suggested I try setting "fileEncoding" to something;  it suggested I 
look at the "Encoding" section in the help file for "file".  This 
suggested that anything I got to work on my computer might not be 
portable.


	  Suggestions?
	  Thanks,
	  Spencer
	

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       I get "Wide character in print" from trying 
read.xls("22_data.xls") in the gdata package, with "22_data.xls" 
downloaded from "Varieties_Country_A-E.xls" at 
"http://www.reinhartandrogoff.com/data/browse-by-topic/topics/7/":


> library(gdata)
> read.xls("22_data.xls")
Wide character in print at 
C:/Users/sgraves/pgms/R/R-2.15.2/library/gdata/perl/xls2csv.pl line 270.
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

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

other attached packages:
[1] gdata_2.12.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] gtools_2.7.0


       I get the same message from xls2sep("22_data.xls").


       It's only a comment, so I suppose I could ignore it.  However, 
it's generated by a function I'm adding to the Ecdat package, and I'd 
rather find a way to avoid it.  (I suppose I could dump it to sink, but 
that's pretty extreme and could mask other problems.)


       Thanks,
       Spencer


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