Re: [R] translating HTML character entities to accented characters

ot;, "â", "ã", "ä", "å", "æ", "ç", "è", "é", "ê", "ë", "ì", "í", "î", "ï", "ð", "ñ", "ò", "ó", "ô", "õ"

Re: [R] translating HTML character entities to accented characters

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Re: [R] translating HTML character entities to accented characters

Thanks, David I need an all-R solution for this, because the author.csv file is exported from a database that enforces the HTML encoding and the import into R may have to be repeated several times as the database is updated. -Michael On 8/10/2012 12:40 PM, David L Carlson wrote: It's not qu

Re: [R] translating HTML character entities to accented characters

It's not quite an R solution, but I just pasted your examples into a script window in R and saved it as chars.html. Then I opened it in Firefox and pasted the results here (with returns inserted to match your original). > grep("&", author$lname, value=TRUE) [1] "Frère de Montizon" "Lumière" [3]