[R] Read Unicode text (*.txt)

[William Dunlap]

Should that  encoding="UTF-8"  be  encoding="UTF-16"?

Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com


On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 2:45 PM Jim Lemon <drjimlemon using gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Javad,
> Unicode characters do have embedded nulls. Try this:
>
> d4<-read.table("./4.csv",sep=";",header=TRUE,encoding="UTF-8")
>
> Jim
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 3:47 AM javad bayat <j.bayat194 using gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear R users;
> > I am trying to read an excel CSV file (1.csv). When I read it as csv file
> > in R, the R shows me the exact number of row. But it puts all columns in
> > one column, while I have 3 or 4 columns in the data frame.
> > "
> > d4 = read.table("./4.csv",sep=";",header=TRUE)
> >      Warning messages:
> >      1: In read.table("./4.csv", sep = ";", header = TRUE) :
> >       line 1 appears to contain embedded nulls
> >      2: In read.table("./4.csv", sep = ";", header = TRUE) :
> >      line 2 appears to contain embedded nulls
> >      3: In read.table("./4.csv", sep = ";", header = TRUE) :
> >      line 3 appears to contain embedded nulls
> >      4: In read.table("./4.csv", sep = ";", header = TRUE) :
> >      line 4 appears to contain embedded nulls
> >      5: In read.table("./4.csv", sep = ";", header = TRUE) :
> >     line 5 appears to contain embedded nulls
> >      6: In read.table("./4.csv", sep = ";", header = TRUE) :
> >     line 1 appears to contain embedded nulls
> >      7: In scan(file = file, what = what, sep = sep, quote = quote, dec =
> > dec,  :
> >        embedded nul(s) found in input
> > > attach(d4)
> > > dim(d4)
> > [1] 1814394       1
> > "
> > I opened the csv file in excel and I tried to make a new csv (delimited)
> > file. I dont know why in the "save as type" box Unicode text (*.txt) is
> > written. Why the format is txt while the file extension is .CSV?
> > Please help me to read this format correctly.
> > Many thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best Regards
> > Javad Bayat
> > M.Sc. Environment Engineering
> > Alternative Mail: bayat194 using yahoo.com
> >
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