unaccent: De-accents strings

In upstartr: Utilities Powering the Globe and Mail's Data Journalism Template

Description

Replace accented characters with their non-accented versions. Useful when dealing with languages like French, Spanish or Portuguese, where accents can lead to compatibility issues during data analysis.

Usage

unaccent(x, remove.nonconverted = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x	A character vector.
remove.nonconverted	Should the function remove unmapped encodings? (Default: FALSE)
...	Parameters passed to textclean::replace_non_ascii

Value

A character vector of strings without accents.

Examples

unaccent('façile')
unaccent('Montréal')

upstartr documentation built on Feb. 23, 2021, 9:06 a.m.