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By Greg Nowak, 9 July, 2021

Handling Multibyte Characters And Strings In R Project

If you encounter this problem when reading csv-files, you might want to try to change the encoding from UTF-8 to latin1. This worked for me when using the tolower function in R.

Pretty nice solution here with gsub (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38828620/how-to-remove-strange-char…):

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  • rscript
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By Greg Nowak, 12 April, 2017

Time Stamp in R

How to make a nice time stamp with date and time in R:

now <- strptime(Sys.time(), "%Y-%m-%d%T")
time_stamp <- sprintf("%s", now )

 

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  • rscript
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