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unaccent

De-accents strings

Description

Replace accented characters with their non-accented versions. Useful when dealing with languages like French, Spanish or Portuguese, where accents can lead to compatibility issues during data analysis.

Usage

unaccent(x, remove.nonconverted = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

`x`	A character vector.
`remove.nonconverted`	Should the function remove unmapped encodings? (Default: FALSE)
`...`	Parameters passed to `textclean::replace_non_ascii`

Value

A character vector of strings without accents.

Examples

unaccent('façile')
unaccent('Montréal')

upstartr

Utilities Powering the Globe and Mail's Data Journalism Template

v0.1.1

MIT + file LICENSE

Authors

Tom Cardoso [aut, cre] (creator and maintainer), Michael Pereira [ctb], The Globe and Mail Inc. [cph]

Initial release