Importing an Excel file with Greek characters into R in the correct encoding
问题 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, library("xlsx") read.xlsx("test.xlsx",1,header=F,colClasses=c("character"),encoding="UTF-8") gives me X1 1 a-cadinol 2 a-calacorene 3 a-caryophyllene alcohol 4 a-curcumene 5 a-elemol 6 a-muurolene 7 a-terpineol acetate 8 ß-4-dimethyl-3-cyclohexane-1-ethanol acetate 9 ß-bisabolene 10 ß-bisabolol 11 ß-bourbonene 12 ß-caryophyllene alcohol 13 ß