utf8_encoding {tidyft}

Use UTF-8 for character encoding in a data frame

Description

fread from data.table could not recognize the encoding and return the correct form, this could be unconvenient for text mining tasks. The utf8-encoding could use "UTF-8" as the encoding to override the current encoding of characters in a data frame.

Usage

utf8_encoding(.data, .cols)

Arguments

.data

A data.frame.

.cols

The columns you want to convert, usually a character column.

Value

A data.table with characters in UTF-8 encoding

Examples

iris %>%
  as.data.table() %>%
  utf8_encoding(Species)  # could also use `is.factor`