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