Reading Chinese characters in R

Question

I am using read.xlsx to load a spreadsheet that has several columns containing Chinese characters.

slides<-read.xlsx("test1.xlsx",sheetName="Sheet1",encoding="UTF8",stringsAsFactors=FALSE)

I have tried with and without specifying encoding, I have tried reading from a text file, CSV file etc. No matter the approach, the result is always:

                  樊志强 ->  é‡åº†æ–°æ¡¥åŒ»é™¢

Is there any package/format/sys.locale setup that might help me get the right information into R?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

can you find your answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10955582/displaying-utf-8-encoded-chinese-characters-in-r? — Jonas Tundo, Apr 11 '14 at 13:26

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 22 '17 at 20:34

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You can try the readr package, and use the following code:

library(readr)
loc <- locale(encoding = "UTF-8")
slides <-  read_table("filename", locale = loc)

answered Mar 22 '17 at 20:34

Chengbin Wang

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