simplewords: Remove special characters and numbers and format to UTF-8...

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Remove special characters and numbers and format to UTF-8 encoding with standardised capitalisation

Description

Takes a vector with character elements, removes special characters and numbers and formats them to UTF-8 encoding to make these consistent and compatible with most R analysis procedures. Returns strings with the first letter capitalised and the rest in lower case

Usage

simplewords(x, case, encode = TRUE)

Arguments

x	string or character vector
case	Optional; case of words to return; upper, lower or title (first letter upper case and the rest lower case). Default is title
encode	Optional; Logical; attempt to encode as UTF-8. Default is TRUE.

Value

Returns the input in UTF-8 format with special characters replaced with spaces and numbers removed.

Author(s)

Diane Hatziioanou

Examples

# strings <- simplewords(strings)
# clean_name <- simplewords("Latin-multi^name with strange/characters")
# df$Name <- simplewords(df$Name, case = "lower")

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