[R] workflow getting UTF-8 csv in and out of R on Mac (spreadsheet editor)

[Hadley Wickham]

You can use readr::write_excel_csv() which adds a BOM that forces excel to
read as UTF-8.

Hadley

On Friday, September 2, 2016, Erich Neuwirth <erich.neuwirth at univie.ac.at>
wrote:

> read_excel in Hadley’s readxl package
> should handle your encoding problems.
> Writing Excel files on a Mac, however, still is somewhat messy.
>
> And you probably should post this kind of question on r-sig-mac
>
>
>
> On 02 Sep 2016, at 13:03, Kai Mx <govokai at gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am hoping for some advice on how to handle UTF-8 spreadsheet files in a
> > Mac environment - sort of off-topic, but still relevant for hopefully a
> > bunch of people.
> >
> > I am using R on Mac OS 10.10. Sometimes I have the urge to actually look
> at
> > a large spreadsheet on the big screen or make some changes to the tables.
> > Since most of my colleagues live in the M$ Excel - world I tend to use
> > Excel 2011 as well. However, Excel does not handle UTF-8 (which I like
> > because of different system locales).
> > So I actually do a write.csv with file-encoding in macroman, but even
> then
> > Excel won't just open it and I will have to work my way through the
> > import-dialogue.
> >
> > The other way around, it's even worse. I save the spreadsheet as
> macroman,
> > iconv it to utf-8 and then read.csv it to R.
> >
> > It works, but it's just really messy. Is there a (preferably
> light-weight)
> > csv-spreadsheet Editor for Mac OS that you use? Open-Office? I would like
> > NOT to actually buy another Excel version. However, for collaboration, a
> > xls-export would be phenomenal.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Kai
> >
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