I have been chasing this issue for all day long.
I downloaded exercise materials for a text book via: http://www.crup.com.cn/UploadFiles/jxkj/gsgl/243184/统计学基于R第二版例题和习题数据.rar
However, these RData work well in R & Rstudio in win10, while cannot show chinese characters in Mac
Rstudio in win10:
Rstudio in Mac
Chinese characters crash
R console in Mac
Chinese characters crash
I have searched lots of the solutions on the websites, most of which are about how to fix the problem on importing ".csv" doc. But my question is about how to load RData into R without chinese characters crashing.
Some answers mentioned that we should switch the "default text encoding" in "Global options" of Rstudio into "UTF-8", but I have checked Rstudio in Mac and Win10, and they both are in "UTF-8" mode.
Therefore I really don't know what's the real problem is.
Perhaps there's a better solution that works globally, but one way is to convert the encodings for each object separately:
load("~/Downloads/exercise1_1.RData")
exercise1_1[, 1:3]
# ָ\xb1\xea X2008\xc4\xea X2009\xc4\xea
# 1 \xb5\xcd\xca\xd5\xc8뻧 1500 1549
# 2 \xd6е\xc8ƫ\xcf»\xa7 2935 3110
# 3 \xd6е\xc8\xca\xd5\xc8뻧 4203 4502
# 4 \xd6е\xc8ƫ\xc9\u03fb\xa7 5929 6468
# 5 \xb8\xdf\xca\xd5\xc8뻧 11290 12319
names(exercise1_1) <- iconv(names(exercise1_1), from = "GB2312", to = "UTF-8")
exercise1_1 <- lapply(exercise1_1, function(x) if(is.factor(x)) as.character(x) else x)
exercise1_1 <- data.frame(lapply(exercise1_1, function(x) {
if(is.character(x))
iconv(x, from = "GB2312", to = "UTF-8")
else
x
}
))
exercise1_1[, 1:3]
# 指标 X2008年 X2009年
# 1 低收入户 1500 1549
# 2 中等偏下户 2935 3110
# 3 中等收入户 4203 4502
# 4 中等偏上户 5929 6468
# 5 高收入户 11290 12319