Fix common encoding problems when working with web imported data.

Source: R/encoding.R

This function tries to resolve typical encoding problems when importing web data on Windows. Typical problems occur with pound and emdash (-), especially when these originated in MS-Word.

fix_common_encoding_problems(x, encoding = localeToCharset())

Arguments

x

A character vector

encoding

A character string describing the encoding of x. Defaults to the current locale. See also iconvlist()

See also

Other Functions to clean data: encToInt(), fix_levels_01_spss(), has_dont_know(), intToEnc(), leveltest, remove_all_dont_know(), remove_dont_know()