I have a big issue in reading in .csv files into R that are in Eastern Europe ISO-8859-13 encoding. Does anybody have solution for this?
read.csv("myFile.csv", encoding = "ISO-8859-13")
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Possible duplicate of [How to read csv data with unknown encoding in R](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16681812/how-to-read-csv-data-with-unknown-encoding-in-r) – Tim Biegeleisen Jul 21 '17 at 14:38
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3What is going wrong? For instance, what happens when you use `read.csv` with argument `fileEncoding = "ISO-8859-13"`? – Scarabee Jul 21 '17 at 15:23
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Try `data.table::fread()` – Mako212 Jul 21 '17 at 15:37
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2@Scarabee Thanks! I was trying `encoding="ISO-8859-13` instead of `fileEncoding='ISO-8859-13"`. – Justas Mundeikis Jul 24 '17 at 05:32
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We need to use fileEncoding instead of encoding (as suggeseted by @Scarabee in the comments):
read.csv("myFile.csv", fileEncoding = "ISO-8859-13")
In bash we can retrieve the file encoding with:
$ file -i ./weirdo.csv
Tell R how the file is encoded by pasting the output from charset= which could be for example charset=iso-8859-1
read.csv("weirdo.csv", fileEncoding = "iso-8859-1")
