char_replace: Replacement of non-standard characters

In STATWORX/helfRlein: R Helper Functions

Replacement of non-standard characters

Description

This function replaces non-standard characters (such as the German Umlaut 'ä') with their standard equivalents (in this case 'ae'). Arguments enable the user to force all characters to lower-case, trim leading and trailing whitespace characters or replace all whitespace characters and dashes with underscores or remove all whitespace characters within the string.

Usage

char_replace(
  x,
  to_lower = FALSE,
  trim = TRUE,
  rm_space = FALSE,
  rm_dash = FALSE,
  to_underscore = FALSE
)

Arguments

x	character vector, contains special characters needing to be replaced.
to_lower	logical, forces all characters to lower-case
trim	logical, if whitespaces are trimmed from the start and end. Is ignored with rm_space == TRUE.
rm_space	logical, removes all whitespace characters within the string.
rm_dash	logical, removes all dash-characters within the string.
to_underscore	logical, replaces all whitespace and dash-characters with underscores.

Value

a character vector with all non-standard characters replaced by their standard counterparts

Author(s)

Oliver Guggenbuehl

Examples

x <- "Élizàldë-González Strasse"
char_replace(x)
char_replace
char_replace(x, to_lower = TRUE, to_underscore = TRUE)
char_replace(x, to_lower = TRUE, rm_space = TRUE, rm_dash = TRUE)

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