Using “cat” to write non-English characters into a .html file (in R)

Question

Here is the code showing the problem:

myPath = getwd()
cat(\"abcd\", append = T, file =paste(myPath,\"temp1.html\", sep = \"\\\\\")) # This is fine
cat(\"


        

Answer 1

Your code is a bit redundant. Is temp1.txt on line 5 a typo (.html)? Anyway, perhaps you should set charset within tag.

Take this as an example:

<%
cat("abcd")
cat("


")
cat("שלום")
cat("שלום")
(x <- iconv("שלום", from = "CP1252", to = "UTF8") )
cat(x)
-%>

It is a brew code, so if you go ahead and brew it, you'll get correct response. Long story short, the keyword was charset.