Read a UTF-8 text file with BOM

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Have you tried read.csv(..., fileEncoding = "UTF-8-BOM")?. ?file says:

As from R 3.0.0 the encoding ‘”UTF-8-BOM”’ is accepted and will remove
a Byte Order Mark if present (which it often is for files and webpages
generated by Microsoft applications).

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