handling special characters e.g. accents in R

Question

I am doing some web scraping of names into a dataframe

For a name such as "Tomá? Rosicky, I get a result "Tom???? Rosick??"

I tried

Encoding("Tom???? Rosick??") #  with latin1 response

but was not sure where to go from there to get the original name with accents back. Played around with iconv without success

I would be satisfied (and might even prefer) an output of "Tomas Rosicky"

Answer 1

You've read in a page encoded in UTF-8. if x is your column of names, use Encoding(x) <- "UTF-8".