Error when importing species data from GBIF.org using "gbif" functon

Error in gsub(reStrip, " ", completions, perl = TRUE) : **
** input string 5 is invalid UTF-8

I sometimes get the above mentioned error when importing data from GBIF for some species using "dismo" package and in particular "gbif" function. Could any one explain to me what it means? Thanks alot.

Hi, and welcome!

Without a reproducible example, called a reprex, it's hard to be specific, but this post may help.

This topic was automatically closed 21 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.