The
Web Gallery of Art is Open Data - downloadable as CSV and importable into RStudio. Depending on your system, however, you might find strange characters instead of Umlaute and accents:
<f6> instead of
ö.
That is a sign of
ISO-8859 encoding and probably due to the fact that the developers of the site are from
Budapest, Hungary.
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| Oh, what is this? |
The simple solution for that is to read it as it is, as ISO-8859 (and not UTF-8).
Some suggest to change 'Default text encoding' in the Preferences , but it is much easier:
- Do not use the "Import Dataset" assistant. The encoding option has no effect in some versions.
- Use the command line and enter WGAcatalog <- read.csv2("WGAcatalog.csv", sep=";", encoding="iso_8859-1")
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| Great! |
Does that work for you?
