Thanks, David
I need an all-R solution for this, because the author.csv file is
exported from a database that enforces the HTML
encoding and the import into R may have to be repeated several times as
the database is updated.
-Michael
On 8/10/2012 12:40 PM, David L Carlson wrote:
It's not quite an R solution, but I just pasted your examples into a script
window in R and saved it as chars.html. Then I opened it in Firefox and
pasted the results here (with returns inserted to match your original).
grep("&", author$lname, value=TRUE)
[1] "Frère de Montizon" "Lumière"
[3] "Lumière" "Niépce"
[5] "Süssmilch" "Schüpbach"
grep("&", author$birthplace, value=TRUE)
[1] "Marbach, Württemberg"
[2] "Côte-d'Or"
[3] "Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire"
[4] "Groß Särchen, Germany"
apropos("HTML")
For a CSV file you would want to preserve the lines by adding <br> to the
end of each line first.
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David L Carlson
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4352
-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-
project.org] On Behalf Of Michael Friendly
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 11:15 AM
To: R-help
Subject: [R] translating HTML character entities to accented characters
I've imported a .csv file where character strings that contained
accented characters were written as HTML
character entities. Is there a function that works on a vector to
translate them back to accented (latin1) characters?
Some examples:
> grep("&", author$lname, value=TRUE)
[1] "Frère de Montizon" "Lumière"
[3] "Lumière" "Niépce"
[5] "Süssmilch" "Schüpbach"
> grep("&", author$birthplace, value=TRUE)
[1] "Marbach, Württemberg"
[2] "Côte-d'Or"
[3] "Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire"
[4] "Groß Särchen, Germany"
> apropos("HTML")
thx,
-Michael
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