[R] Comparing Latin characters with and without accents?

[Spencer Graves]

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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