How to read non-english characters with read.delim in R?

Question

I have a text file containing several languages, how to read in R use read.delim function,

Encoding("file.tsv")
#[1] "unknown"

source_data = read.delim(file, header= F, fileEncoding= "windows-1252",
               sep = "\t", quote = "")
source_D[360]
#[1] "ð¿ð¾ð¸ñðº ð½ð° ññ‚ð¾ð¼ ñð°ð¹ñ‚ðµ"

But the source_D[360] showed in Notepad is 'поиск на этом сайте'

I don't know: is this helpfull for you: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5031630/how-to-source-r-file-saved-using-utf-8-encoding ? — jogo, May 06 '16 at 07:52

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 25 '20 at 15:53

tidyverse approach:

use the option locale in read_delim. (readr functions have _ instead of . and are usually faster and smarter to read) more details here: https://r4ds.had.co.nz/data-import.html#parsing-a-vector

source_data = read_delim(file, header= F, 
                         locale = locale(encoding = "windows-1252"),
                         sep = "\t", quote = "")

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 06 '19 at 23:59

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source_data = read.delim(file, header = F, sep = "\t", quote = "", stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
Encoding(source_data)= "UTF-8"

I have tried, If you run you R in windows, above code works for me. and if you run R in Unix, you could use following code

source_data = read.delim(file, header = F, fileEncoding="UTF-8", sep = "\t", quote = "", stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

edited Jun 06 '19 at 23:59

Ronak Shah

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answered May 09 '16 at 08:49

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How to read non-english characters with read.delim in R?

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