str_sanitize: Sanitize strings by removing reserved and non portable...

In lhmet/lhmetools: A Collection Of R Functions For Hydrometeorological Data Analysis And Modelling

Sanitize strings by removing reserved and non portable character set

Description

Make a reasonable attempt of converting a string into a preferred standard form to name variables and file names

Usage

str_sanitize(vnames, sep = "_", no.accent = TRUE)

Arguments

vnames	character vector to be sanitized
sep	character of replacements, Default: '_'
no.accent	logical, if is to remove accents from vnames, Default: TRUE

Details

str_sanitize() removes or replace the following:

• Control characters

• Reserved characters

• Unix reserved filenames (. and ..)

• Trailing periods and spaces (invalid on Windows)

• Windows reserved filenames (CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9)

• any accented noum and punctuation character

• any resulting initial or trailing underscore or multiples

• uppercase by lowercase

• repeated seperator

• names starting with a number by a character

Value

a character vector in lowercase with underscore (sep) to separate nouns

Examples

str_sanitize(c("esúpido", "^ ãb ", "..c`a§", "A .xls.xls", "1° dia"))

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