Convert Annotations, and Value Labels between Encodings
Iconv.Rd
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 annotation
Iconv(x,from="",to="",...)
# S3 method for data.set
Iconv(x,from="",to="",...)
# S3 method for importer
Iconv(x,from="",to="",...)
# S3 method for item
Iconv(x,from="",to="",...)
# S3 method for value.labels
Iconv(x,from="",to="",...)
Arguments
- x
an object of which attributes are to be re-encoded.
- from
a character string desribing the original encoding
- to
a character string desribing the target encoding
- ...
further arguments, passed to
iconv
Examples
if (FALSE) {
# 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")
}