all. I am a beginner of R.
I try to read a text file (csv) into R. The correct version should be "Our mission, which has...", however, after I loaded the file, I got "Our U+00A0 mission, which has..."
Here is how I load my code:
mission = read.csv(file.choose(),header=T, stringsAsFactors=F, encoding="UTF-8")
I know is unicode for space, but can anyone let me know how can my Rstudio show a space instead of
Can anyone please help?
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I have updated to the latest R release (R version 4.2.0), but I am now facing the problem that all the Swedish special letters cannot be read anymore. I am working with a database that has many Swedish letters in its factor lables and even if I am reading them in as strings R doesn't recognise them, with the consequence that all summary tables that are based on these factors as groups are not calculated correctly anymore. The code has been working fine under the previous release (but I had issues with knitting Rmarkdown files, therefore the need for updating).
I have set the encoding to iso-5889-4 (which is nothern languages) after UTF-8 has not worked. Is there anything else I could try? Or has anyone come to a solution on how to fix this, other than to rename all lables before reading in the .csv files? (I would really like to avoid this fix, since I am often working with similar data)
I have used read.csv() and it produces cryptic outputs replacing the special letters with for example <d6> instead of ö and <c4> instead of ä.
I hope that someone has an idea for a fix. Thanks.
edit: I use windows.
Sys.getlocale("LC_CTYPE")
[1] "Swedish_Sweden.utf8"
Use the encoding parameter
I have been able to detect failed loads by attempting to apply toupper to strings, which gives me errors such as
Error in toupper(dataset$column) :
invalid multibyte string 999751
This is resolved and expected outcomes obtained by using
read.csv(..., encoding = 'latin1')
or
data.table::fread(..., encoding = 'Latin-1')
I believe this solution should apply to Swedish characters as they are also covered by the Latin-1 encoding.
I have the same problem, what worked for me was like the answer above said but I used encoding ISO-8859-1 instead. It works for both reading from file and saving to file for Swedish characters å,ä,ö,Å,Ä,Ä, i.e:
read.csv("~/test.csv", fileEncoding = "ISO-8859-1")
and
write.csv2(x, file="test.csv", row.names = FALSE, na = "", fileEncoding = "ISO-8859-1")
It's tedious but it works right now. Another tip is if you use Rstudio is to go to Global options -> Code -> Saving and set your default text encoding to ISO-8859-1 and restart Rstudio. It will save and read your scripts in that encoding as default if I understand correctly. I had the problem when I opened my scripts with Swedish characters, they would display wrong characters. This solution fixed that.
I am trying to read a file containing non-ASCII characters in R, please see the screenshot below.
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When I use readLines() to read the file, I get simply few lines of content.
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Please help! Any answer is highly appreciated.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I tried searching for similar problems and did not find what I was looking for.
I scraped some text from Internet and now try to work with it in R. I encountered a problem: there are unknown characters inserted in the middle of some words. It looks normal when I just display the table, but when I copy the text there is this symbol. For example, if the cell in the table is "Example", when I copy it to the console, I see this:
This unfortunately is problematic as R does not recognize the word in these cases and would not find the cell if I, for example, would try to find all cells that contain the word "Example". As the error seems random and doesn't just apply to specific words I do not know how to fix it - can anybody help me?
Thank you very much in advance!!
You can use iconv function to remove all non-ASCII characters from the string. Please see the example below:
iconv("Ex·ample", from = "UTF-8", to = "ASCII", sub = "")
# Example
I have a japanese text csv file seperated by tab
It was written in utf-8 using python csv package
However,when i import it with command in RStudio as below
A <- read.csv("reviews4.csv",sep="\t",header = F,encoding="UTF-8")
The japanese character would show like this:
<U+8AAC>明無<U+3057><U+306B><U+5185>容量<U.....
I think it only shows kanji parts correctly.
I've tried encoding = "CP932"
It would show:
隤祆<98><81><86>捆<87><....
Then I tried another way: click the file in the lower right and select "import dataset"
Then strange things happend:
When I choose "First rows as names",the colnames show japanese properly
but when I disable that,it show uncorrectly.
Can anyone help me importing japanese csv properly?
Thank you so much!
Use fileEncoding="UTF-8" instead of encoding="UTF-8".
Have a look at the attached picture, which comes from an RStudio notebook...
After I render this into an HTML file, I get the following:
Why do the "?" characters become "chinese?" characters?
Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks