Can R read html-encoded emoji characters?
问题 Question My question, explained below, is how can R be used to read a string that includes HTML emoji codes like �� , and either (1) represent the emoji symbol (e.g., as a unicode symbol: 🤗 ) in the parsed string, or (2) convert it into its text equivalent (" :hugging face: ")? Background I have an XML dataset of text messages (from the Android/iOS app [Signal])(https://signal.org/) that I am reading into R for a text mining project. The data look like this, with each text