[R] Problem with writing a CSV file in UTF-8 formate

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 22/06/2010 9:00 AM, venkata kirankumar wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a problem with writing a *.CSV file in UTF-8 formate
>
> I tried to write a dataframe named  "dfPREINDX" to the new file named
> "preindx.csv" in below formate
>
> write.table(dfPREINDX,PreIndex,fileEncoding="UTF-8",sep="|",row.names=FALSE)
>
> but its throed an error  like
>
> Error in write.table(dfPREINDX, "preindx.csv", fileEncoding = "UTF-8", sep =
> "|",  :
>   unused argument(s) (fileEncoding = "UTF-8")
>
> can any one please help me how to create a file in UTF-8  formate.

The write.table has no fileEncoding argument.  To write to a non-native 
encoding, you need to open a connection with that encoding, and write to 
that.  For example:

con <- file("preindx.csv", open="w", encoding="UTF-8")
write.table(dfPREINDX, con, sep="|",row.names=FALSE)
close(con)

Duncan Murdoch