[R-sig-Geo] readOGR and writeOGR: encoding?

[Roland Kaiser]

You can try something like this

shp <- readOGR()
df <- apply(shp at data, 2, as.character) # if options 
("stringsAsFactors") is TRUE
Encoding(df) <- "latin1"
shp at data <- as.data.frame(df)

Roland

> Hi!
>
> Is there any way to read the dbf of shp files that contain
> non-ascii characters? I've tried with encoding="UTF-8"
> or latin3 as for scan, but this argument does not exist for
> readOGR (or writeOGR)
>
> Agus
>
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