how to read data in utf-8 format in R?

Question

My system:win7+R-3.0.2.

> Sys.getlocale()
[1] \"LC_COLLATE=Chinese (Simplified)_People\'s Republic of China.936;LC_CTYPE=Chinese 
(Simplified)_People\'s R         


        

Answer 1

Try a different argument for read.table: fileEncoding:

 read.table("test.utf8", sep = "," , header=TRUE, fileEncoding = "UTF-8")