Error while reading csv file in R

Question

I am having some problems in reading a csv file with R.

 x=read.csv(\"LorenzoFerrone.csv\",header=T)

Error in make.names(col.names, unique = TRUE) : 
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Answer 1

Typically an encoding issue. You can try to change encoding or else deleting the offending character (just use your favorite editor and replace all instances). In some cases R will spit the char location, for example:

invalid multibyte string 1847

Which should make your life easier. Also note that you may be required to repeat this process several times (deleting all offending characters or trying several encodings).