title: Converting accents to ASCII in R
body: <p>I'm trying to convert special characters to ASCII in R. I tried using Hadley's advice in <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9934856/removing-non-ascii-characters-from-data-files">this question</a>: </p>
  
  <pre><code>stringi::stri_trans_general('Jos\xe9', 'latin-ascii')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I get "Jos�". I'm using stringi v1.1.1.</p>
  
  <p>I'm running a Mac. My friends who are running Windows machines seem to get the desired result of "Jose". </p>
  
  <p>Any idea what is going on?</p>