Iconv

Convert Annotations, and Value Labels between Encodings

This function uses the base package function iconv to translate variable descriptions (a.k.a variable labels) and value labels of item, data.set, and importer objects into a specified encoding.

It will be useful in UTF-8 systems when data file come in some ancient encoding like 'Latin-1' as long used by Windows systems.

Usage

Iconv(x,from="",to="",…) 
# S3 method for annotation
Iconv(x,from="",to="",…) 
# S3 method for data.set
Iconv(x,from="",to="",…) 
# S3 method for importer
Iconv(x,from="",to="",…) 
# S3 method for item
Iconv(x,from="",to="",…) 
# S3 method for value.labels
Iconv(x,from="",to="",…)

See Also

iconv, iconvlist

Aliases

• Iconv
• Iconv.annotation
• Iconv.data.set
• Iconv.importer
• Iconv.item
• Iconv.value.labels

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# Locate an SPSS 'system' file and get info on variables, their labels etc.
ZA5302 <- spss.system.file("Daten/ZA5302_v6-0-0.sav",to.lower=FALSE)

# Convert labels etc. from 'latin1' to the encoding of the current locale.
ZA5302 <- Iconv(ZA5302,from="latin1")

# Write out the codebook
writeLines(as.character(codebook(ZA5302)),
           con="ZA5302-cdbk.txt")

# Write out the description of the varialbes (their 'variable labels')
writeLines(as.character(description(ZA5302)),
            con="ZA5302-description.txt")
# }