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syre
syre

Reputation: 982

How to read hangul-script shapefiles into R/sf

Hangul (Korean) script in shapefiles gets mangled in the process of reading into R.

Download Seoul, Incheon, Gyeonggi-do region shapefiles from this website (in Korean). I attach the files, as they are not accessible outside Korea.

I'm using RStudio on Windows 10 in English. Just in case, set RStudio default text encoding to "UTF-8" and set locale to Korean:

Sys.setlocale(category="LC_ALL", locale = "Korean")

Read shapefiles into R using the sf package:

library(sf)

#Read, name and combine regions
sca_nsdi <- rbind(cbind(st_read("LARD_ADM_SECT_SGG_11.shp"), Name="Seoul"), 
                  cbind(st_read("LARD_ADM_SECT_SGG_28.shp"), Name="Incheon"), 
                  cbind(st_read("LARD_ADM_SECT_SGG_41.shp"), Name="Gyeonggi-do"))

#View result
View(sca_nsdi)

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The hangul in column SGG_NM is unreadable, as well as through the console:

sca_nsdi$SGG_NM[1]

[1] ������

Upvotes: 1

Views: 365

Answers (1)

syre
syre

Reputation: 982

I've finally just figured it out:

Sys.setlocale(category="LC_ALL", locale = "Korean")
sca_nsdi <- rbind(cbind(st_read("LARD_ADM_SECT_SGG_11.shp", options="ENCODING=EUC-KR"), Name="Seoul"), 
                  cbind(st_read("LARD_ADM_SECT_SGG_28.shp", options="ENCODING=EUC-KR"), Name="Incheon"), 
                  cbind(st_read("LARD_ADM_SECT_SGG_41.shp", options="ENCODING=EUC-KR"), Name="Gyeonggi-do"))

Upvotes: 1

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