Remove accents and hyphens in character vector

This function will allow you to remove accents, hyphens and any strange characters that come from the UTF-8 encoding, with the intention of working with standardized names or texts.Review: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/MazamaSpatialUtils/vignettes/MazamaSpatialUtils.html

Usage

allpautils_names(string)

Arguments

string

Characters vector

Examples

library(innovar)
string <- c("Perú", "Estados Unidos")
allpautils_names(string)
#> [1] "Peru"           "Estados Unidos"