Re: [R] Reading a txt file from internet

2024-09-08 Thread Ebert,Timothy Aaron
Say that you have several files from different places or times and you wanted to run your program on all of them without reprogramming. You could start with the readr package and use guess_encoding. j <- 1 for (i in file_paths){ file_encoding[j] <- as.character(readr::guess_encoding(i)$encoding

Re: [R] Reading a txt file from internet

2024-09-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 2024-09-07 7:37 p.m., Jeff Newmiller wrote: I tried it on R 4.4.1 on Linux Mint 21.3 just before I posted it, and I just tried it on R 3.4.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 and R 4.3.2 on Windows 11 just now and it works on all of them. I don't have a big-endian machine to test on, but the Unicode spec say