rmLatin: Remove Special Characters

In LimaRAF/plantR: Managing Species Records from Biological Collections

Remove Special Characters

Description

Simple function to replace accents by the same or corresponding letters without accents. Currently, the function basically replaces special characters corresponding to the Latin-1 Supplement and very few Latin Extended-A. For a more complete replacement of all non-ASCII characters, please use the function replace_non_ascii() from package textclean.

Usage

rmLatin(x)

Arguments

x	a vector with characters to be replaced

Value

the input vector with the special characters replaced

Author(s)

Renato A. F. de Lima

Examples

  nomes <- c("Thom\u00e9", "Mu\u00f1oz", "\u0153uf")
  nomes

## Not run: 
  rmLatin(nomes)

## End(Not run)

LimaRAF/plantR documentation built on Jan. 1, 2023, 10:18 a.m.