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M.wol
M.wol

Reputation: 1321

How to keep UTF -8 encoding when using read csv in R?

I encountered a problem of lossing file encoding UTF - 8 when using 

read.csv

in R. That resulted in e.g. Latin letters replaced by not desired signs, e.g.: Iguaçu.

I tried using following with FileEncoding argument:

read.csv(xx.csv, fileEncoding = 'UTF-8')
read.csv2(xx.csv, fileEncoding = 'UTF-8')

but got error:

Warning messages:1: In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote,  :
  invalid input found on input connection 'C:/xxx.csv'
2: In read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep, quote = quote,  :
  incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'C:/xxx.csv'

What is the solution to keep the UTF-8 encoding when reading csv into R?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4039

Answers (1)

M.wol
M.wol

Reputation: 1321

So by trial and error method, I found out that using function from readr package

read_csv

instead of

read.csv
read.csv2

without any fileEncoding argument does the work and the encoding is being kept. Hope that might help someone.

Upvotes: 3

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