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

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 22/06/2010 10:39 AM, venkata kirankumar wrote:
> Hi Murdoch,
> first of all thanks allot for your suggestion.
> I tried the way you suggested but while opening in notepad and checking its
> showing  that the file is in ANSI
> can any thing else I can do for this
>   
What makes you think notepad is able to detect the encoding properly?

Duncan Murdoch
> Thanks in advance
> kiran
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
>
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