peek_guess_encoding: Guess File Encoding

In fpeek: Check Text Files Content at a Glance

Guess File Encoding

Description

Detect the encoding of a text file. This function is a wrapper around guess_encoding from the readr package, returning the best candidate as a character string.

readr must be installed (it is listed in Suggests). If it is not available, the function stops with an informative message.

Usage

peek_guess_encoding(path)

Arguments

path	path to the text file.

Value

a character string giving the most likely encoding.

Examples

## Not run: 
f <- system.file(package = "fpeek",
  "datafiles", "cigfou-ISO-8859-1.txt")
peek_guess_encoding(f)

## End(Not run)

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