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I just started data analysis with R and the dataset I'm currently working with reads Cédric as C<e9>dric. What's a way I can get read all names perfectly without having to correct them individually?

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    How exactly are you importing these datasets? What OS are you using? It's easier to help you if you provide a [reproducible example](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example) with sample input and desired output that can be used to test and verify possible solutions. – MrFlick Aug 08 '22 at 20:38
  • Importing data set with read.csv, Names appear as appropriate on excel e.g "Álvaro Fernández" but after import and viewing in R studio, the name is shown as "lvaro Fernndez". I am using a windows 11 – Mega Erivona Aug 10 '22 at 12:11
  • Do you know what encoding was used in the file? On windows you might see both Latin-1 and UTF-8 as pretty common, though with other languages different encodings may have been used. What version of R are you using? Windows support for UTF-8 changed a lot in R 4.2. Sometimes the value is just escaped when printing to the R console. If you `cat()` the value in the column you can see the unescaped version. It's really hard to guess what might work in your case with a proper reproducible example we can copy/paste to test with. – MrFlick Aug 10 '22 at 13:28
  • I do not know what encoding was used on the file. R studio version 4.2.1 is what I'm using. Yeah, it's difficult as I'm not giving you enough to work with. – Mega Erivona Aug 11 '22 at 18:02

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