You've not told us the 'at a minimum' information requested in the posting
guide. What OS? What locale? And how did you 'import'?
But here's a guess. If you change \\345 to \345, it should render
correctly in a Latin-1 locale:
"H\345rkan"
[1] "Hårkan"
If this a UTF-8 locale, convert it
iconv("H\345rkan", "latin1")
[1] "Hårkan"
and if you have an unsuitable locale, e.g. a Chinese one
iconv("H\345rkan", "latin1", "ASCII//TRANSLIT")
[1] "Harkan"
or
gsub("\\\\345", "aa", "H\\345rkan")
[1] "Haarkan"
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Yingfu Xie wrote:
Hello all,
I have a data frame in R, imported from an excel file in Swedish. The
original file contains several columns that have special characters,
such as \?{a}, \?{o}, and so on. After import such special characters
are represented in the data frame by "\\345", "\\366" etc (don't ask me
why). For example, a word "H?rkan" becomes ''H\\345rkan".
That's odd: the quotes do not match.
We do need to ask you 'why', as we have nothing reproducible here.
Now my question is if it is possible to substitute those "H\\345rkan" by
"Haarkan" or simply "Harkan" in R, ideally by finding those "\\345" and
then replacing.
Thanks in advance,
Yingfu
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