Unicode characters in R data frame

Asked Jul 10 '19 at 09:49

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I have a data frame that containts polish diacritic signs however in my data frame they are presented as e.g. ZESP\xc3\x93\xc5\x81 SZK\xc3\x93\xc5\x81 which should be ZESPÓŁ SZKÓŁ. I was trying to make a replace for all of those characeters: e.g.

x <- "SP\\xc3\\x93\\xc5\\x81KA"
x1 <- data.frame(x)

data <- data.frame(lapply(x1, function(df3) {
                    gsub("SP\\xc3\\x93\\xc5\\x81KA", "SPÓŁKA", df3)
              }))

However such a replace does not work. How to deal with those type of data frames? How to force it to display correct diacritic signs?

I have added a fully reproducible example. Any ideas? Some solutions?

edited Jul 30 '19 at 12:42

asked Jul 10 '19 at 09:49

mmkaczmarek123

Try `utf8::utf8_encode(x)` Where `x <- "SP\\xc3\\x93\\xc5\\x81KA"` – markus Jul 10 '19 at 09:52
On the entire data frame? – mmkaczmarek123 Jul 10 '19 at 09:53
Did you try [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49739800/convert-unicode-to-readable-characters-in-r)? – Sotos Jul 10 '19 at 09:54
@markus does not work – mmkaczmarek123 Jul 10 '19 at 09:58
@Sotos good idea it somehow works but I have no idea as of now how to force it to work with Polish language and all characters at once – mmkaczmarek123 Jul 10 '19 at 10:00
@mmkaczmarek123 Can create a [reproducible example](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5963269/how-to-make-a-great-r-reproducible-example)? – markus Jul 10 '19 at 10:35
@markus will do my best to try to create it – mmkaczmarek123 Jul 10 '19 at 13:00
@markus reproducible example was added – mmkaczmarek123 Jul 11 '19 at 08:54
You have any ideas? Any solutions? – mmkaczmarek123 Aug 01 '19 at 14:28

Unicode characters in R data frame

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