Reading Rdata file with different encoding

Question

I have an .RData file to read on my Linux (UTF-8) machine, but I know the file is in Latin1 because I\'ve created them myself on Windows. Unfortunately, I don\'t have access

Answer 1

Another option using dplyr's mutate_if:

fix_encoding <- function(x) {
  Encoding(x) <- "latin1"
  return(x)
}
data <- data %>% 
  mutate_if(is.character,fix_encoding) 

And for factor variables that have to be recoded:

fix_encoding_factor <- function(x) {
  x <- as.character(x)
  Encoding(x) <- "latin1"
  x <- as.factor(x)
  return(x)
}
data <- data %>% 
  mutate_if(is.factor,fix_encoding_factor)