Hi Julio,
If you look at the documentation for
?read.fwf
you will see '...' further arguments to be passed to 'read.table'
and if you look at
?read.table
you will see there is an argument called, 'encoding', so, yes. Just
specify the encoding.
Cheers,
Josh
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Julio Sergio <julioser...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to read a data file that contains characters from the Spanish
> language:
>
>> Station <- read.fwf("LosDatos.txt",widths=c(7,7,25,8,8,5),header=FALSE,
> + skip=3,n=separ[1]-4)
>
> Then the R interpreter issues the following message:
>
> Error en substring(x, first, last) :
> invalid multibyte string at '<d1>A, S.'
> Calls: read.fwf -> cat -> sapply -> lapply -> FUN -> substring
>
> I know that the message is because there is a "Ñ" before the text "A, S.".
>
> Is there a way to tell R that the text file is UTF-8 encoded?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Sergio.
>
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