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I have a dataset that I exported from Tableau that I am now trying to import into R.

I am getting the following error message: Error in make.names(col.names, unique = TRUE) : invalid multibyte string at 'D'

When I open my data in a text editor (sublime text), it looks like this: 

Date hour minute region amount

March 29th, 2016 2 43 KY  4 
March 29th, 2016 2 58 CA  30

The headers are delineated by tabs.

I've tried saving it with UTF-8 encoding, but R is still not able to read it. Any ideas?

Thanks!

MattDMo
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  • how are you importing it? does [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14363085/invalid-multibyte-string-in-read-csv) help – rawr Mar 31 '16 at 18:13
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    Some things to try: setting the `sep` and `fileEncoding` arguments explicitly. Can you post your "read.csv" command? – andrechalom Mar 31 '16 at 18:15

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