Control character encoding in the 'rio' package?

Question

My txt table looks like this:

morče   kanár   malý pes
morče   potkan  rybičky
želva   rybičky střední pes
kočka   papoušek    želva

It is encoded in UTF-8 and stored in file mazlicci.txt. When I try

library(rio)
import("mazlicci.txt")

the character encoding is broken.

How can I control character encoding in the rio package? The encoding argument in import knows only three charsets: UTF-8, unknown, and Latin-1. The UTF-8 option does not remedy the problem. (Nor the other ones, expectedly.) I am working on Windows 7, R version 3.2.4 (2016-03-10) -- "Very Secure Dishes", Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit),Czech locale (cp1250). I experience no encoding problems with UTF-8 encoded files using the basic R importing functions.

You are on windows, right? – Roman Luštrik Apr 01 '16 at 10:16 — Roman Luštrik, Apr 01 '16 at 10:16

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 01 '16 at 10:23

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You can specify the encoding in the import function:

library(rio)
import("mazlicci.txt", encoding = "UTF-8")

answered Apr 01 '16 at 10:23

Wolfgang

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And what happens when you import a bunch of files via lapply? Example: mylist <- lapply(excel_files_list, rio::import(encoding = "UCS-2LE")) I get an error : Error in grepl("^http.*://", file) : argument "file" is missing, with no default – useRj Jul 07 '17 at 07:52
Your use of lapply is wrong. it should look something like: lapply(excel_files_list, rio::import, encoding = "UCS-2LE"). Please see ?lapply for more details. – Wolfgang Jul 09 '17 at 15:13

Control character encoding in the 'rio' package?

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