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 > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Matthew S. Shotwell Graduate Student Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Medical University of South Carolina ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.