replace_symbol: Replace Symbols With Word Equivalents

In textclean: Text Cleaning Tools

Description

This function replaces symbols with word equivalents (e.g., @ becomes "at".

Usage

replace_symbol(x, dollar = TRUE, percent = TRUE, pound = TRUE,
  at = TRUE, and = TRUE, with = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

x	A character vector.
dollar	logical. If TRUE replaces dollar sign ($) with "dollar".
percent	logical. If TRUE replaces percent sign (%) with "percent".
pound	logical. If TRUE replaces pound sign (#) with "number".
at	logical. If TRUE replaces at sign (@) with "at".
and	logical. If TRUE replaces and sign (&) with "and".
with	logical. If TRUE replaces with sign (w/) with "with".
...	ignored.

Value

Returns a character vector with symbols replaced..

Examples

x <- c("I am @ Jon's & Jim's w/ Marry", 
    "I owe $41 for food", 
    "two is 10% of a #"
)
replace_symbol(x)

Example output

[1] "I am  at  Jon's  and  Jim's  with  Marry"
[2] "I owe  dollar 41 for food"               
[3] "two is 10 percent  of a  number "        

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