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str_conv

Specify the encoding of a string.

Description

This is a convenient way to override the current encoding of a string.

Usage

str_conv(string, encoding)

Arguments

`string`	String to re-encode.
`encoding`	Name of encoding. See `stringi::stri_enc_list()` for a complete list.

Examples

# Example from encoding?stringi::stringi
x <- rawToChar(as.raw(177))
x
str_conv(x, "ISO-8859-2") # Polish "a with ogonek"
str_conv(x, "ISO-8859-1") # Plus-minus

stringr

Simple, Consistent Wrappers for Common String Operations

v1.4.0

GPL-2 | file LICENSE

Authors

Hadley Wickham [aut, cre, cph], RStudio [cph, fnd]

Initial release