[R-sig-Geo] readOGR and non-ascii characters

[Roland Kaiser]

Hi!

The following works well for German umlaut.

Encoding(obj$COLUMN) <- "latin1"

Possibly you need to convert to mode character first.

obj$COLUMN <- as.character(obj$COLUMN)

Cheers,

Roland

Am 03.12.2008 um 14:22 schrieb Agustin Lobo:

> Hi!
>
> I have problems at reading a shp file with readOGR(), names with
> non-ascii characters (accents ',`) in the dbf table are imported as  
> i.e.
> Barber\x85 del Vall\x8as
>
> while I can read them fine with OpenOffice Calc
>
> Is there any way I can state the character set of the dbf file in  
> readOGR()?

I did not find a way of doing so?

>
> Thanks
>
> Agus
>
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