Importing an Excel file with Greek characters into R in the correct encoding

Question

I am having some trouble importing the following file: http://www.kuleuven.be/bio/ento/temp/test.xlsx into R in the correct encoding. In particular,

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Answer 1

Try this:

library(stringi)

?stringi

Apply this to see your file codification

stri_enc_detect("path-to-your-file/your-file.csv", filter_angle_brackets = T)

stri_enc_detect2("path-to-your-file/your-file.csv", locale = NULL)

The first one works for me.

Then apply the result in the read.csv(), as the example bellow:

    df <- read.csv("path-to-your-file/your-file.csv",header = TRUE, sep = ";", 
quote = "\"", na.strings = "", dec = ".", skip = 2, check.names = T, 
fileEncoding = "YOUR RESULT OF stri_enc_detect", encoding = "UTF-8")

Answer 2

Try this:
Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_ALL", locale = "Greek")