Czech encoding in R

Question

I have installed RStudio on a new computer, and has developed encoding issues. When I type accented text in console (no file writing or reading involved, just plain console)

Answer 1

Perhaps:

new.locale <- ifelse(.Platform$OS.type=="windows", "Czech_Czech Republic.1250", "en_US.UTF-8")
Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", new.locale) 

Also learn to specify your OS.

Answer 2

For the benefit of posterity - I overcame my problem by setting code page to 1250 (while keeping US English as my language).

if (.Platform$OS.type == 'windows') {
  Sys.setlocale(category = 'LC_ALL','English_United States.1250')
} else {
  Sys.setlocale(category = 'LC_ALL','en_US.UTF-8')
}

in the .Rprofile