R does not display Korean/Chinese

[lee11]

Hi all,

It is very strange - R used to recognize Korean before, but it does not seem that it can do it now anymore. For instance, when I do:

a <- "안녕"
a

then I get

"\354\225\210\353\205\225"

Likewise, I have a tsv that is in Korean, and R does not correctly display the Korean characters. Does anyone know how I can fix this problem?

encoding is already in UTF-8, and locale("ko") gives:

readr(library) 
lokale ("ko") 

Numbers:  123,456.78
Formats:  %AD / %AT
Timezone: UTC
Encoding: UTF-8
<date_names>
Days:   <U+C77C><U+C694><U+C77C> (<U+C77C>), <U+C6D4><U+C694><U+C77C> (<U+C6D4>), <U+D654><U+C694><U+C77C> (<U+D654>), <U+C218><U+C694><U+C77C> (<U+C218>), <U+BAA9><U+C694><U+C77C> (<U+BAA9>), <U+AE08><U+C694><U+C77C> (<U+AE08>),
        <U+D1A0><U+C694><U+C77C> (<U+D1A0>)
Months: 1<U+C6D4>, 2<U+C6D4>, 3<U+C6D4>, 4<U+C6D4>, 5<U+C6D4>, 6<U+C6D4>, 7<U+C6D4>, 8<U+C6D4>, 9<U+C6D4>, 10<U+C6D4>, 11<U+C6D4>, 12<U+C6D4>
AM/PM:  <U+C624><U+C804>/<U+C624><U+D6C4>

[mara]

I'm not able to reproduce this, could you run this as a reprex, or give some more information about your setup (R version, RStudio version, if you're using it, etc.)?

a <- "안녕"
a
#> [1] "안녕"

^{Created on 2019-05-16 by the reprex package (v0.2.1)}

Session info

devtools::session_info()
#> ─ Session info ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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#>  system   x86_64, darwin15.6.0        
#>  ui       X11                         
#>  language (EN)                        
#>  collate  en_US.UTF-8                 
#>  ctype    en_US.UTF-8                 
#>  tz       America/New_York            
#>  date     2019-05-16                  
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#>  yaml          2.2.0      2018-07-25 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.0)                 
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[lee11]

Hi Mara,

Thanks for the reply.
I somehow figured out the answer myself!

For those who might see this post in the future,
using the below code solved the problem:

Sys.setlocale("LC_CTYPE", "ko_KR.UTF-8")

Thank you nonetheless