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I'm trying to use the read.dbf function in R, but the name of the file contains a special character 'ñ' from spanish.

I changed the name of the file, removing the special character. The thing is that there are a lot of files with similar names and maybe this won't be the best to do.

read.dbf('Soporte_Plantilla_Vigor_Total_Daños_201806_Inicial_Vigor.dbf')

I'm getting the following error:

Error in read.dbf("Soporte_Plantilla_Vigor_Total_Daños_201806_Inicial_Vigor.dbf") : unable to open DBF file

I want to be able to read this type of file names without changing them.

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  • You want to read multiple DBF-files? Eventually you can adapt the answers for https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11433432/how-to-import-multiple-csv-files-at-once – jogo May 22 '19 at 19:07
  • The issue is more related to the special character in the name, I don't know if there's a way to read this type of names with special characters with read.dbf or if I have to change all the names so the function doesn't present the error – Aldo Hernandez May 23 '19 at 17:03
  • With `Files <- dir(...)` you do not have to type the special characters. – jogo May 23 '19 at 18:20

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