Hello, All:
What do people do to strip accents from latin characters, returning
vanilla ASCII?
For example, I want to convert ‘Raúl’ to “Raul”. Milan (below)
suggested 'iconv(x, “", "ASCII//TRANSLIT”)’. This worked under Windows but
failed on Linux and Mac. It’s part of the “subNonStandardCharacters” function
in the Ecfun package. The development version on R-Forge uses this and returns
“Raul” under Windows and NA under Mac OS X (and something different from
“Raul”, presumably NA, under Linux).
Thanks,
Spencer
> On Nov 30, 2014, at 2:32 AM, Spencer Graves
> <spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com> wrote:
>
> Wonderful. Thanks very much. Spencer
>
>
> On 11/30/2014 2:25 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
>> Le dimanche 30 novembre 2014 à 02:14 -0800, Spencer Graves a écrit :
>>> Hello:
>>>
>>>
>>> How can one convert Latin characters with to the corresponding
>>> characters without? For example, I want to convert "ú" to "u", similar
>>> to how tolower('U') returns "u".
>>>
>>>
>>> This can be done using chartr{base}, e.g., chartr('ú', 'u',
>>> 'Raúl') returns "Raul". However, I wondered if a simpler version of
>>> this is available.
>> This appears to work:
>>> iconv("ù", "", "ASCII//TRANSLIT")
>> [1] "u"
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Spencer
>>>
>>>
>>> p.s. findFn('convert to ascii') found 117 help pages in 70 packages.
>>> A brief review identified two to "Convert to ASCII": ASCIIfy {gtools}
>>> and stri_enc_toascii {stringi}. Neither of these did what I expected.
>>>
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