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JBGruber / rwhatsapp

An R package for working with WhatsApp data 💬
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Inquiry for reading txt files containing characteristics of Chinese language #23

Closed vickybrtyy89 closed 3 years ago

vickybrtyy89 commented 3 years ago

Thank you so much for this package. It works well with files in English. However, when I am trying to import files in Chinese, Rstudio cannot show Chinese characteristics properly. Capture Meanwhile, the Chinese characteristics can be shown in the environment. image so I am wondering how to import the Chinese words properly for future analysis. Thank you so much for your help.

JBGruber commented 3 years ago

Could you try and export your data.frame to a csv file and open it in another application (e.g., Notepad or Excel etc.)? That means something like:

library("rwhatsapp")
chat <- rwa_read(history)
rio::export(chat, "test.csv")

In my experience, R is extremely good with basically all kinds of characters, agnostic of the language. But RStudio isn't necessarily. That means your data might be stored correctly in R but is not displayed correctly. In the latter case, this would be an RStudio issue that I can't really help you with. By exporting the data and opening it in an application that you know is capable of displaying Chinese characters, you can test which problem you have.

vickybrtyy89 commented 3 years ago

Thank you so much for your reply. I checked the results in R and it works really well.