breakdown: Clean up special characters

In codymarquart/LSAfun2: Applied Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) Functions (no plotting/rgl)

Description

Replaces special characters in character vectors

Usage

breakdown(x)

Arguments

x	a character vector

Details

Applies the following functions to a character vector

• sets all letters to lower case

• replaces umlauts (for example ä replaced by ae)

• removes accents from letters (for example é replaced by e)

• replaces ß by ss

  Also removes other special characters, like punctuation signs, numbers and breaks

Value

A character vector

Author(s)

Fritz Günther

See Also

gsub

Examples

breakdown("Märchen")

breakdown("I was visiting Orléans last week. 
           It was nice, though!")

codymarquart/LSAfun2 documentation built on May 13, 2019, 8:48 p.m.