string_clean: Clean letters in a string.

In thorepet/thoremisc: Miscellaneous Functions

Description

Transform string into a simple lowercase ASCII representation. Options to convert string to lowercase, remove non-letter characters, replace German Umlaute, and transliterate diacritical letters (á, å, ê, ...).

Usage

string_clean(
  string,
  lower = TRUE,
  spec_chars = TRUE,
  umlaute = TRUE,
  diacritics = TRUE
)

Arguments

string	A character vector.
lower	Boolean, convert string to lowercase.
spec_chars	Boolean, remove non-letters.
umlaute	Boolean, replace German Umlaute.
diacritics	Boolean, transliterate diacritical letters.

Details

The function removes full stops, i.e. breaks sentences.

Value

string, modified.

See Also

The function internally calls .remove_special_chars, .replace_umlaute, and .remove_diacritics.

Examples

string_clean("Thîs sŧriñg will bé å løt simplêr. Köln is not in M-V.")

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