ChangeEncodingInAnObject: Change Encoding in an existing R data.frame

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Change Encoding in an existing R data.frame

Description

Change Encoding in an existing R data.frame

Usage

ChangeEncodingInAnObject(
  InputDataFrame,
  TargetEncoding = "ansi",
  ConvertFactorIntoCharacter = TRUE
)

Arguments

InputDataFrame	data.frame. Input data.frame
TargetEncoding	character. Target encoding. default is 'ansi'. Check '?Èncoding' function for more information about available encodings.
ConvertFactorIntoCharacter	logical. Should factor variables first converted in character variable. If set to 'FALSE', this will not be done and (!) labels of factor variables will not be changed into the target encoding. default is 'TRUE'

Value

data.frame. data.frame with target encoding.

Examples

# Change into ANSI
DataFrame <- data.frame(id = 1:3, Position = c("Mähen", "Flüssigdünger ausbringen", "Mähen diagonal"))
DataFrame
# Change into UTF-8
DataFrameUTF8 <- ChangeEncodingInAnObject(InputDataFrame = DataFrameANSI, TargetEncoding = "UTF-8")
DataFrameUTF8
# Change back
ChangeEncodingInAnObject(InputDataFrame = DataFrameUTF8, TargetEncoding = "ANSI")

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