problem with R enconding

Question

I was asked to do text analysis and I’m having trouble with coding, someone knows how to convert these strings with accent directly?

Example of how the file appears:

vocês dizerem que não!!! Até quando

Another example:

â¤ï¸(...) Comilanças é amigo secreto na casa clean!ðŸŽ

I’ve tried using this function:

stringi::stri_enc_detect(dados$text)

and I got this exit:

    [[1]]$Encoding
    [1] "UTF-8"        "windows-1252" "windows-1250" "UTF-16BE"     "UTF-16LE"     "Shift_JIS"    "windows-1254"
    [8] "IBM420_ltr"  

    [[1]]$Language
    [1] ""   "pt" "cs" ""   ""   "ja" "tr" "ar"

    [[1]]$Confidence
    [1] 1.00 0.63 0.28 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.02 0.01

If anyone can help I’d be grateful!

Answer 1

Maybe the problem is already in the import. How are you importing the files? When the default does not work correctly I usually try to set encoding = "UTF8".

Try to: read.csv("filename.csv", encoding = "UTF-8")

Anything tries to read here: http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~izahn/posts/Reading-data-with-non-native-encoding-in-r/