scraEP (version 1.2)

unaccent: Remove all accents from character strings.

Description

This function removes all diacritic accents from character strings (eg. transforms "<U+00E0><U+00FC><U+00EE>" into "aui").

Usage

unaccent(text)

Arguments

text

a character vector

Value

A character vector, containing the unaccentuated version of the given text.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
unaccent("<U+00E2><U+00E0><U+00E9><U+00E8><U+00EF><U+00EC>")
# }