toUTF8 {descr}

Conversion to UTF-8 encoding

Description

Converts the encoding of some attributes of an object to UTF-8

Usage

toUTF8(x, from = "WINDOWS-1252") 

Arguments

x

A R object, usually a variable of a data frame or a data frame.

from

A string indicating the original encoding. Common values are "LATIN1" and "WINDOWS-1252". Type iconvlist() for the complete list of available encodings.

Details

The function converts the attribute label of x from the specified encoding into UTF-8. If x is a factor, the levels are converted as well. If x is a data.frame, the function makes the conversions in all of its variables.

Value

The object with its label and levels converted.

Author(s)

Jakson A. Aquino [e-mail].

See Also

iconv