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I am having trouble reading a csv file in R that includes greek letters. I tried:

read.csv('C:/users/trinhsk/downloads/diospyros_1/Substances (7).csv',header = F)

This site (How to detect the right encoding for read.csv?) suggested I try different fileEncodings however none seemed to work. R is displaying the greek letters like so:

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However in Excel it is like:

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Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong or how can I read the Greek letters correctly? Thank you.The file can be dl'd here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K44FTvUFUWm5l-xwz58SgeSvj8lGYXTc/view?usp=sharing

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According to this link you could first try "UTF-8" as encoding, and if this doesnt work, simply set 

Sys.setlocale(category = "LC_ALL", locale = "Greek")
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    hi thanks for your quick response. I tried that and it didn't seem to make any difference in the parsing. R still shows strange characters. I also tried UTF-8 and it gave me warning message: 'incomplete final line found by readTableheader' ... – Spencer Trinh Feb 05 '18 at 18:46