error displaying localized characters (Slavic lngs)

[romunov]

I'm plotting some data, where facets have a "location" name. Several location levels have a localized character (š, č or ž) and I've noticed they are not displayed correctly. I've fiddled around with options("encoding" = "UTF-8") but got me nowhere. Has anyone experienced a similar problem and maybe found a way how to circumvent it? I've had a similar problem with writing to a pdf a while ago.

For instance, this facet should read "Menišija", but instead I get "MeniL..ija" (š was translated to "L..").

Any advice much appreciated.

Cheers,

Roman

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[Brandon Hurr]

I found this happened often when I was importing the data into a dataframe. I remember the solution was to add check.names=F to my read.delim() and if you had special characters in your facets I think you might need to use backticks as well. Got a simple example to play with?

B

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[romunov]

Thanks for bothering with this. Was your data.frame displaying the correct characters? I can see all the names just fine and dandy, the problem ensues when plotting. In any case, I'm attaching a small example.

my.sample <- data.frame(Location = rep(c("Menišija", "Železniki"), each = 3), SampleTypeL = c("scats", "urine", "saliva"), NumAnimals = c(5, 5, 5, 1, 2, 3))

ggplot(my.sample, aes(x = SampleTypeL, y = NumAnimals, group=Location)) +  

geom_line() + geom_point() + facet_grid(Location ~.)

[Brandon Hurr]

Just tried it on my machine and it worked...

> sessionInfo()

R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)

Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)

locale:

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

attached base packages:

[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:

[1] ggplot2_0.9.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):

 [1] colorspace_1.1-1   dichromat_1.2-4    digest_0.5.1       grid_2.14.1        MASS_7.3-17        memoise_0.1        munsell_0.3        plyr_1.7.1         proto_0.3-9.2     

[10] RColorBrewer_1.0-5 reshape2_1.2.1     scales_0.2.0       stringr_0.6 

[romunov]

I should point out that I'm using Eclipse+StatET. When I run the code in R gui things work time. Thank you for your time, Brandon.

Cheers,

Roman