File path with Unicode characters in Rscript.exe

Question

I'm trying to save an SVG image to a file path containing Unicode characters. For example:

n = c(2, 3, 5)
s = c("aa", "bb", "cc") 
b = c(TRUE, FALSE, TRUE) 
df = data.frame(n, s, b)

svg("c:/נועם/plots.svg")
plot(df)
dev.off() 

Running this with Rscript.exe fails with the following error:

Error in plot.new() : cairo error 'error while writing to output stream'

How can I make it work?

Answer 1

You can set working directory to the directory with Hebrew name than save svg file. Please see the code below:

n <- c(2, 3, 5)
s <- c("aa", "bb", "cc") 
b <- c(TRUE, FALSE, TRUE) 
df <- data.frame(n, s, b)
setwd("C:\\נועם\\")
svg("plots.svg")
plot(df)
dev.off() 

Answer 2

Late to the party but I think that wrapping the path in enc2native() function normally solves encoding issues under Windows to my experience. In your case you should try

svg(enc2native("c:/נועם/plots.svg"))