Question: using encoding when scheduling task

[Vidaringa]

I'm using the RStudio addin to schedule tasks. I'm having trouble with Icelandic letters. What I normally do is instead of scheduling the script task.R I create new file source_task.R where source_task.R has only one line of code: source(task.R, encoding = "UTF-8"). Is there any way for me to do this differently. I.e. scheduling task.R and use encoding = "UTF-8"?

[jwijffels]

Hava you tried scheduling task.R?

[Vidaringa]

When I schedule task.R characters like Á, Þ, Æ, Ö will change. For example, Ára becomes ára. Fixing this involves creating new .R file like source_task.R and schedule it instead. The source_task.R only contains one line of code i.e. source(task.R, encoding = "UTF-8").

I was wondering if I would skip this extra step of creating source_task.R?

[jwijffels]

It is unclear to me based on your description where and when you get this change in encoding related text. When saving code, running code, printing code?

[Vidaringa]

I'm sorry that I'm not clear enough.
I have two options. Scheduling task.R or source_task.R.
task.R has bunch of code where I read in .csv files, make some calculations and then I write the final data frame to a .csv file. This way words like Ára becomes ára in the final data frame that I write to .csv file.
The other option is to schedule source_task.R which has only one line of code whihc is source(task.R, encoding = "UTF-8"). This way, everything works fine and the final data frame that I write as a .csv file has Ára.

[jwijffels]

This is not related to this package. Just make sure you write data to your csv in the right encoding. Not related to this package.