R character Encoding goes wrong (English - Spanish)












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Im trying to load a dataset into R using an API that lets me do a query and returns back the data I need (I cant configure on server side).



I know it has something to do with Encoding. When i check the string in from by dataframe in R in gives me ENC: UTF-8 "Cosmética".



When i copy the source string "Cosmética" it gives me latin1.



How can i get the UTF-8 string properly formatted like the latin1?
Ive tried this below:



Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL","Spanish")



tried directly on the string:



Enconding(Description) <- "latin1"



unfortunately i cant get it to work. Any ideas are welcome! Thanks.










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    Im trying to load a dataset into R using an API that lets me do a query and returns back the data I need (I cant configure on server side).



    I know it has something to do with Encoding. When i check the string in from by dataframe in R in gives me ENC: UTF-8 "Cosmética".



    When i copy the source string "Cosmética" it gives me latin1.



    How can i get the UTF-8 string properly formatted like the latin1?
    Ive tried this below:



    Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL","Spanish")



    tried directly on the string:



    Enconding(Description) <- "latin1"



    unfortunately i cant get it to work. Any ideas are welcome! Thanks.










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      Im trying to load a dataset into R using an API that lets me do a query and returns back the data I need (I cant configure on server side).



      I know it has something to do with Encoding. When i check the string in from by dataframe in R in gives me ENC: UTF-8 "Cosmética".



      When i copy the source string "Cosmética" it gives me latin1.



      How can i get the UTF-8 string properly formatted like the latin1?
      Ive tried this below:



      Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL","Spanish")



      tried directly on the string:



      Enconding(Description) <- "latin1"



      unfortunately i cant get it to work. Any ideas are welcome! Thanks.










      share|improve this question













      Im trying to load a dataset into R using an API that lets me do a query and returns back the data I need (I cant configure on server side).



      I know it has something to do with Encoding. When i check the string in from by dataframe in R in gives me ENC: UTF-8 "Cosmética".



      When i copy the source string "Cosmética" it gives me latin1.



      How can i get the UTF-8 string properly formatted like the latin1?
      Ive tried this below:



      Sys.setlocale("LC_ALL","Spanish")



      tried directly on the string:



      Enconding(Description) <- "latin1"



      unfortunately i cant get it to work. Any ideas are welcome! Thanks.







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      Sander Van der ZeeuwSander Van der Zeeuw

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          You can use iconv to change to encoding of the string:



          iconv(mystring, to = "ISO-8859-1")
          # [1] "Cosmética"


          ISO 8859-1 is the common character encoding in Western Europe.






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          • thanks for this. It works indeed if the source Encoding is correct. For me some system setting were overwritten so i changed those and works now ;-)
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          You can use iconv to change to encoding of the string:



          iconv(mystring, to = "ISO-8859-1")
          # [1] "Cosmética"


          ISO 8859-1 is the common character encoding in Western Europe.






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          • thanks for this. It works indeed if the source Encoding is correct. For me some system setting were overwritten so i changed those and works now ;-)
            – Sander Van der Zeeuw
            Nov 12 '18 at 15:58


















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          You can use iconv to change to encoding of the string:



          iconv(mystring, to = "ISO-8859-1")
          # [1] "Cosmética"


          ISO 8859-1 is the common character encoding in Western Europe.






          share|improve this answer





















          • thanks for this. It works indeed if the source Encoding is correct. For me some system setting were overwritten so i changed those and works now ;-)
            – Sander Van der Zeeuw
            Nov 12 '18 at 15:58
















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          You can use iconv to change to encoding of the string:



          iconv(mystring, to = "ISO-8859-1")
          # [1] "Cosmética"


          ISO 8859-1 is the common character encoding in Western Europe.






          share|improve this answer












          You can use iconv to change to encoding of the string:



          iconv(mystring, to = "ISO-8859-1")
          # [1] "Cosmética"


          ISO 8859-1 is the common character encoding in Western Europe.







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          • thanks for this. It works indeed if the source Encoding is correct. For me some system setting were overwritten so i changed those and works now ;-)
            – Sander Van der Zeeuw
            Nov 12 '18 at 15:58




















          • thanks for this. It works indeed if the source Encoding is correct. For me some system setting were overwritten so i changed those and works now ;-)
            – Sander Van der Zeeuw
            Nov 12 '18 at 15:58


















          thanks for this. It works indeed if the source Encoding is correct. For me some system setting were overwritten so i changed those and works now ;-)
          – Sander Van der Zeeuw
          Nov 12 '18 at 15:58






          thanks for this. It works indeed if the source Encoding is correct. For me some system setting were overwritten so i changed those and works now ;-)
          – Sander Van der Zeeuw
          Nov 12 '18 at 15:58




















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