Remove accents and special characters from strings

This function removes accents and replaces special characters from strings, returning a plain-text version suitable for data cleaning or standardization.

Usage

remove_accent(s)

Arguments

s

(character) a character vector containing the strings to process.

Value

A vector string without accents or special characters.

Examples

remove_accent(c("Colômbia", "São Paulo"))
#> [1] "Colombia"  "Sao Paulo"