Running Rscript with UTF-8 on Windows 10

Asked Jul 10 '20 at 12:56

Active Jul 10 '20 at 13:20

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Instead of opening Rstudio or similar to run my R scripts I have gotten into the habit of running scripts with Rscript.exe from the command line. Works great except when the file I feed Rscript.exe has non-ASCII characters. If my Rscript subsequently calls other Rscripts there are no issues. Concrete example:

I have two files

# test.R
print(intToUtf8(230))
print("æ")

# run_test.R
source("test.R", encoding = "UTF-8")

Now if I go to the command line and run: [...] \R\R-4.0.2\bin\Rscript.exe test.R I get:

[1] "æ"
[1] "Ã¦"

My current solution (which I want to get around): [...] \R\R-4.0.2\bin\Rscript.exe run_test.R

[1] "æ"
[1] "æ"

Possibly relevant info:

I would like to continue saving my script files with "UTF-8".
R version 4.0.2
Tried running scripts from Powershell, Command Prompt, Git Bash. Always the same result.
Locale:

Sys.getlocale()
# "LC_COLLATE=Icelandic_Iceland.1252;LC_CTYPE=Icelandic_Iceland.1252;LC_MONETARY=Icelandic_Iceland.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Icelandic_Iceland.1252"

edited Jul 10 '20 at 13:20

asked Jul 10 '20 at 12:56

s_baldur

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Try creating a .Rprofile file containing `options(encoding="UTF-8")` – Hong Ooi Jul 10 '20 at 13:17
@HongOoi Tried adding it to the top of the script and to my .Rprofile, but neither fixed the issue. – s_baldur Jul 10 '20 at 13:19
You could also try `Sys.setLocal("LC_CTYPE", "UTF-8")` – Hong Ooi Jul 10 '20 at 13:20
@HongOoi tried `Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", "UTF-8")` in both places but didn't work. `OS reports request to set locale to "UTF-8" cannot be honored` – s_baldur Jul 10 '20 at 13:22

Running Rscript with UTF-8 on Windows 10

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