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

Try it this way

cat("abcd", file = (con <- file("temp1.html", "w", encoding="UTF-8"))); close(con)