handling special characters e.g. accents in R

Question

I am doing some web scraping of names into a dataframe

For a name such as \"Tomáš Rosický, I get a result \"Tomáš Rosický\"

I tried

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Answer 1

To do a correct read of the file use the scan function:

namb <- scan(file='g:/testcodering.txt', fileEncoding='UTF-8',
what=character(), sep='\n', allowEscapes=T)
cat(namb)

This also works:

namc <- readLines(con <- file('g:/testcodering.txt', "r",
encoding='UTF-8')); close(con)
cat(namc)

This will read the file with the correct accents