stand_string: Standardize strings

In pedroguarderas/mau: Decision Models with Multi Attribute Utility Theory

Standardize strings

Description

Function to correct and standardize names, designed to eliminate special characters, spaces and other characters.

Usage

stand_string(x, chr = NULL, rep = NULL)

Arguments

x	text to be formatted
chr	character vector of replace characters
rep	character vector of replacement characters

Value

Returns data table with definition of utility functions by range

Author(s)

Julio Andrade, Pedro Guarderas, Andrés Lopez [e-mail]

Examples

 x <- c( "H?\u00da\u00e0n with C@1_ad1", 
       "M\u00a1a/\u00ac\u00b0r&\u00eca *_the#-rot", 
       "ju%LI\u00d6 a P\u00e9rs", 
       "(S)tev\n\u00e9n\t los cat%$" )
 y <- sapply( x, FUN = stand_string )
 names( y ) <- NULL

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