descr (version 0.3.0)

fromUTF8: Conversion from UTF-8 encoding

Description

Converts the encoding of some attributes of an object from UTF-8 into other encoding.

Usage

fromUTF8(x, to = "WINDOWS-1252")

Arguments

x

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

to

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

Value

• The object with its label and levels converted.

Details

The function converts the attribute label of x from UTF-8 into the specified encoding. 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.

See Also

iconv, label