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

You should use this:

df$colname <- iconv(df$colname, from="UTF-8", to="LATIN1")