Hello,
I'm a little frightened because of a problem that occured lately as I
tried to read in a xml-file (for replacing some variables in the
string with values from a data frame). The almost biggest problem is
the encoding of the xml-file. Since it is generated by Word 2007 its
encoding is UTF-8 (as to see in the xml-header).
Now I'm establishing a file connection with
channel <- file(filename,open="r+", encoding="UTF-8")
## filename = name of the file
For reading the whole file, I'm using the readLines()-function as follows
t <- readLines(channel, n=-1,warn=F, encoding="UTF-8")
Eventually I'm merging the lines of this data frame with the following
xml <- ""
for(i in 1:length(t)) {
xml <- paste(xml,t[i],sep="")
}
(is there a better way of doing this?)
However, when I execute those lines, I get a warning like:
"incorrect input in the input-connection"
When I read the output variable xml, it's kind of clear: The string
stops at a combination of chinese or japanese characters (which
normally shouldn't be a problem for UTF-8 encoding).
So that is the problem. How am I able to read in the whole xml-file as
a string in R? I need to have the correct encoding, because I want to
grep after special character like "ΓΌ".
Thank you for your help!
Kind regards, Tom
p.s. I'm not likely to use the XML-package, since I didn't want to
parse the xml file :)
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