lexical error: invalid bytes in UTF8 string

[gingerYD]

Recently I ran an old program that I created six months ago, and encountered an UTF-8 encoding error. It was fine a couple of months ago.

Error in feed_push_parser(buf) : lexical error: invalid bytes in UTF8 string. properties": { "County": "Doña Ana County, New Mexico", "Pop (right here) ------^

[banyh]

I had the same problem, and found one way to fix it.

Cause: In spToGeoJSON.R, properties are outputed to JSON file by cat. For example: cat(",", file=path, append=TRUE, sep="\n"). The output file is opened with your system default encoding. When you run getOption("encoding"), you'll get [1] "native.enc". And your native.enc is not utf8. That why property strings are converted to wrong encoding.

Solution: options(encoding = "utf8") before you run toGeoJSON.

My suggestion: file=path can be replaced by file=connect, where connect <- file(path, "w", encoding="utf8").

[gingerYD]

Thank you. This solution works!

[JeffersonEmanuel]

Thank you!!

[felipe-mejia]

Thank you!