I am using the gdata package to read in an Excel document. read.xls chokes on a
“foreign” character. Here's the original code:
require(gdata)
dendro <- read.xls("/tmp/avitot.xlsv3WiXg",fileEncoding="Latin1")
Now, the fileEncoding="Latin1" ought to work, because if i copy the code for
read.xls, and edit
retval <- read.csv(con, na.strings = na.strings, ...)
appropriately, to include fileEncoding="Latin1" and include the definition to
override read.xls (to those who wish to test this: you need to include findPerl
as well), then it works.
but from the code, seems plain that read.xls should pass the
‘fileEncoding="Latin1"’ all the way to when read.csv is called.
So I don't know if this is a bug, or if I have misuderstood something.
Is there a better way to achieve this than to edit and override read.xls?
Any and all suggestions are welcome.
Thank you,
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Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
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