Emoji in R [UTF-8 encoding]

Question

I\'m trying to make an emoji analysis on R. I have stored some tweets where there are emojis.

Here is one of the tweet that I want

Answer 1

The string is invalid UTF-8, as indicated. What you have there is UTF-16 encoded with UTF-8. So \xED\xA0\xBD is the high surrogate U+D83D, -- and \xED\xB2\x83 is the low surrogate U+DC83

If you apply the magical High,Low -> Codepoint formula, you'll end up with the actual codepoint:

(0xD83D - 0xD800) * 0x400 + 0xDC83 - 0xDC00 + 0x10000 = 0x1F483

You'll see this is the dancer emoji. Unfortunately I don't have a suggestion for you, as I'm not that familiar with R. But I can say you'd certainly want to get yourself in a position where this data is double encoded! Hope that helps bump you along the correct direction.