Hi Murdoch, first of all thanks allot for your suggestion. I tried the way you suggested but while opening in notepad and checking its showing that the file is in ANSI can any thing else I can do for this
Thanks in advance kiran On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 22/06/2010 9:00 AM, venkata kirankumar wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I have a problem with writing a *.CSV file in UTF-8 formate >> >> I tried to write a dataframe named "dfPREINDX" to the new file named >> "preindx.csv" in below formate >> >> >> write.table(dfPREINDX,PreIndex,fileEncoding="UTF-8",sep="|",row.names=FALSE) >> >> but its throed an error like >> >> Error in write.table(dfPREINDX, "preindx.csv", fileEncoding = "UTF-8", sep >> = >> "|", : >> unused argument(s) (fileEncoding = "UTF-8") >> >> can any one please help me how to create a file in UTF-8 formate. >> > > The write.table has no fileEncoding argument. To write to a non-native > encoding, you need to open a connection with that encoding, and write to > that. For example: > > con <- file("preindx.csv", open="w", encoding="UTF-8") > write.table(dfPREINDX, con, sep="|",row.names=FALSE) > close(con) > > Duncan Murdoch > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.