keyboardize_punctuation: Keyboardize punctuation marks
In pewresearch/pewmethods: Pew Research Center Methods Miscellaneous Functions

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Examples

View source: R/keyboardize_punctuation.R

Takes a dataset and, for all categories in factor variables, standardizes stylized typographic characters to ASCII versions that are easily typeable on a keyboard.

1	keyboardize_punctuation(df, convert_characters = FALSE)

`df`	A `data.frame`.
`convert_characters`	Should variables of class `character` also be converted, in addition to variables of class "factor"? Defaults to `FALSE`.

Text labels in datasets occasionally contain characters not easily typeable on a standard keyboard which are almost impossible to distinguish from keyboard characters. (This often happens when pasting text in from Microsoft Word). These include the curly apostrophe, the en-dash, the em-dash and the ellipsis. This function converts these typographic characters to characters that are on keyboards by default: the single straight apostrophe, the hyphen-minus, and three periods.

A copy of the original data.frame, with nonstandard characters replaced.

library(dplyr)
# Create an unwanted factor label containing a stylized apostrophe ’ for illustration.
dec13_excerpt <- dec13_excerpt %>% mutate(receduc =
                                           forcats::fct_recode(receduc,
                                                               `Don’t know/Refused` = "DK/Ref"))
table(dec13_excerpt$receduc)
dec13_excerpt <- keyboardize_punctuation(dec13_excerpt)
table(dec13_excerpt$receduc)