Guess File Encoding — peek_guess

Detect the encoding of a text file. This function is a wrapper around guess_encoding from the readr package, returning the best candidate as a character string.

readr must be installed (it is listed in Suggests). If it is not available, the function stops with an informative message.

Usage

peek_guess_encoding(path)

Arguments

path: path to the text file.

Value

a character string giving the most likely encoding.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
f <- system.file(package = "fpeek",
  "datafiles", "cigfou-ISO-8859-1.txt")
peek_guess_encoding(f)
} # }