peek_iconv: Converts encoding of characters

In fpeek: Check Text Files Content at a Glance

Description

Read a file, convert the encoding of characters and print the result.

Usage

peek_iconv(path, from, to = "UTF-8", newfile = NULL)

Arguments

path	file path
from	the code set in which the input is encoded.
to	the code set to which the output is to be converted.
newfile	result file. Default to NULL. If null the result will be print in the R console, otherwise a file is produced containing the result.

Examples

la_cigale <- system.file(package = "fpeek", "datafiles",
  "cigfou-ISO-8859-1.txt")

peek_head(la_cigale)
peek_iconv(la_cigale, from = "ISO-8859-1", to = "UTF-8")

newfile <- tempfile()
peek_iconv(la_cigale, from = "ISO-8859-1", to = "UTF-8",
  newfile = newfile)
peek_head(newfile, n = 10)

fpeek documentation built on March 31, 2021, 5:06 p.m.