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This function uses the base package function iconv to translate variable descriptions (a.k.a variable labels) and value labels of item, data.set, and importer objects into a specified encoding.

It will be useful in UTF-8 systems when data file come in some ancient encoding like 'Latin-1' as long used by Windows systems.

Usage

Iconv(x,from="",to="",...) 
# S3 method for class 'character'
Iconv(x,from="",to="",...) 
# S3 method for class 'annotation'
Iconv(x,from="",to="",...) 
# S3 method for class 'data.set'
Iconv(x,from="",to="",...) 
# S3 method for class 'importer'
Iconv(x,from="",to="",...) 
# S3 method for class 'item'
Iconv(x,from="",to="",...) 
# S3 method for class 'value.labels'
Iconv(x,from="",to="",...)

Arguments

x

a character vector or an object of which character data or attributes are to be re-encoded.

from

a character string describing the original encoding

to

a character string describing the target encoding

...

further arguments, passed to iconv

Value

Iconv returns a copy of its first argument with re-encoded character data or attributes.

See also

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Locate an SPSS 'system' file and get info on variables, their labels etc.
ZA5302 <- spss.system.file("Daten/ZA5302_v6-0-0.sav",to.lower=FALSE)

# Convert labels etc. from 'latin1' to the encoding of the current locale.
ZA5302 <- Iconv(ZA5302,from="latin1")

# Write out the codebook
writeLines(as.character(codebook(ZA5302)),
           con="ZA5302-cdbk.txt")

# Write out the description of the varialbes (their 'variable labels')
writeLines(as.character(description(ZA5302)),
            con="ZA5302-description.txt")
} # }