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

A way to export accents correctly:

enc2utf8(as(dataframe$columnname, "character"))

Answer 2

You've read in a page encoded in UTF-8. if x is your column of names, use Encoding(x) <- "UTF-8".

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

You should use this:

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