R trouble encoding windows

Question

I wasted a lot of time for reading about R encoding hell, but unfortunately didnt find decision.

I need in R to assign character var with "ñ" symbol

utm <- "españa"

And after this pass this var as argument to google api function

pvs <- google_analytics_4(id, 
                          date_range = c(date - 7, date - 1), 
                          metrics = "pageviews",
                          dimensions = "countryIsoCode",
                          dim_filters = filter_clause_ga4(list(dim_filter("source", "EXACT", utm))))

But R/R Studio/Windows (I dont know what) read "españa" as "espana" and pass it to google_analytics_4() argument and as result GoogleAPI dont return any data, because "espana" utm-tag doesnt use. I read about set Sys.getlocale and Sys.setlocale and anothers things, but dont find how fix it.

So what is the easiest way to pass exactly "españa" rather "espana".

P.S.

> sessionInfo()

R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows >= 8 x64 (build 9200)

Matrix products: default

locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=Russian_Russia.1251 LC_CTYPE=Russian_Russia.1251 LC_MONETARY=Russian_Russia.1251 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=Russian_Russia.1251

attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] compiler_3.4.0 tools_3.4.0

Please provide your sessionInfo() here to understand your current settings. And what does utm print on the console (in my case: [1] "españa" - as expected). Please help us to understand your problem by posting a self-contained example so that we can reproduce you problem (e. g. I do not know the functions filter_clause_ga4() and dim_filter() where the source of your problem could be hidden)... — R Yoda

RobertMyles RobertMyles · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-18T23:01:38

Since you haven't posted your session info, the best suggestion I can give is that you use charToRaw("ñ"). This will return a code, something like c3 b1. It's usually the second one you use, along with \u00.

For example, on my Mac, getting the character Ã, I can use something like:

> print("\u00c3")
[1] "Ã"

You can assign this code as part of utm:

utm <- "espa\u00b1a`.

Keep in mind this works on my computer, with my settings. As R Yoda mentioned in the comments, you'll need to check on your own machine.

R trouble encoding windows

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