text_normalization: Normalize text data
In zachmayer/r2vec: Text data to numeric vectors

Normalize text data by removing accents, special characters, and normalizing whitespace. This can remove a lot of information from your strings.

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text_normalization(x, lowercase = TRUE, remove = c("'"),
  spaces = c("[[:punct:]]+", "[[:space:]]+"), remove_accents = FALSE,
  trim = TRUE)

`x`	a character vector
`lowercase`	Decide whether or not to convert the text to lowercase
`remove`	is a character vector (or regex) of characters to remove entirely
`spaces`	is a character vector (or regex) of characters to convert to spaces
`remove_accents`	boolean, decide whether or not to remove accents
`trim`	boolean, trim the final string before returning