utils_text: Clean character vector
In phytomosaic/ecole: ecole: School of Ecology Package

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Examples

Clean a character vector (text string) by replacing punctuation and whitespaces with underscores.

1	clean_text(x, lower = F, ...)

`x`	character vector
`lower`	logical, convert all characters to lowercase?
`...`	further arguments passed to other methods

Useful to clean a vector of species names, perhaps obtained from a biodiversity database, to a machine-readable form.

Cleaned-up character vector of the same length and with the same attributes as x.

# sloppy
x <- c('Alnus___incana', 'Alnus incana ssp.tenuifolia',
       'Alnus rubra  ', '  Alnus viridis',
       'Alnus viridis ssp. crispa', 'Alnus viridis ssp.. sinuata')
# cleaned
clean_text(x)
clean_text(x, lower=TRUE)
clean_text('Alnus viridis ssp.. sinuata ')