[R] remove accents in strings

[Matt Shotwell]

If you know the encoding of the string, or if its encoding is the
current locale encoding, then you can use the iconv function to convert
the string to ASCII. Something like:

iconv(accented.string, to="ASCII//TRANSLIT")

While 7-bit ASCII does not permit accented characters, extended (8-bit)
ASCII does. Hence, I'm not sure this will work. But it's worth a try.

-Matt

On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 13:04 -0400, lamack lamack wrote:
> Dear all, there is a R function to remove all accents in strings?
> 
> best regards.
> 
> JL 
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