Thank you! With best regards, On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 3:47 PM Richard O'Keefe <rao...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What do you mean "ANSI"? > Do you mean ASCII? In that case there is nothing to be done. > Do you mean some member of the ISO 8859 family of 8-bit character sets? > Do you mean some Microsoft-specific code page, such as CP-1252? > (Microsoft CP-437 and CP-1252 "ANSI" but if they have any connection > whatever with ANSI I would appreciate being informed of it.) > If you really do mean the ANSI Extended Latin (ANSEL) character > set, you are out of luck. > > If it is supported in your environment, the easiest way is that use the > iconv() function. That's what it is for. See ?iconv. > > But there is something easier, and that is not to. > Just let R know what the external encoding is, and just read the file. > If you check the documentation of read.csv, ?read.csv > you will find the fileEncoding="..." argument. > > fileEncoding: character string: if non-empty declares the encoding used > on a file (not a connection) so the character data can be > re-encoded. See the 'Encoding' section of the help for > 'file', the 'R Data Import/Export Manual' and 'Note'. > > At a guess, you want fileEncoding="WINDOWS-1252". > > On Tue, 5 May 2020 at 22:42, Mehdi Dadkhah <mehdidadkha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I hope you are doing well! > > I have a CSV file which its encoding is ANSI. How can i change its > encoding > > to UTF-8 in R? > > Many thanks! > > With best regards, > > > > -- > > *Mehdi Dadkhah* > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- *Mehdi Dadkhah* PhD candidate & Research assistant Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran *Email Addresses:* mehdidadkha...@gmail.com mehdidadk...@mail.um.ac.ir [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
