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sashan
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r script code page to Unicode

I am pulling twitter data for my Machine Learning experiment
After I get the data from my search, I want to turn it to a dataframe like this:

 

tweets <- searchTwitter("Bicester Village", n=1000)

df <- do.call("rbind", lapply(tweets, as.data.frame))

 

Twitter data arrives as list of S4 elements. I can successfully carry out experiment in my R Studio and get the results I want.

I then want to see if the data will display in sources, but I see this error:

Error

Details: "Unable to translate bytes [ED][A0] at index 1 from specified code page to Unicode."

I have tried endlesly to convert to UTF-8 (which is not a problem in R Studio), but no luck

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Anonymous
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Hi @sashan,

 

Can you share some detail content about this issue?

 

Since you mentioned about use r script with twitter api, you can also take a look at below article :

Twitter Analysis using SSIS 2016 and SQL Server R Services

 

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

Anonymous
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Hi @sashan

 

I too got the same issue.

I have solved this as below

 

library(twitteR)
library(stringi)
tweets <- searchTwitter("Bicester Village", n=100,lang="en")
df <- twListToDF(tweets)
df$text <- stri_encode(df_tweets$text, "", "UTF-8")

 

But strange thing is it works fine in RStudio but not in power bi query sometimes

 

 

 

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