Unicode in R packages (not)
Will Lowe (2013-01-01 14:50)
Perhaps you are trying to add your nice new object as data for an R
package. But wait. It has (gasp) foreign letters in its
dimnames, so R CMD check will certainly complain.
What you need is something to turn R’s natural Unicode-processing
goodness into a relic from the early days of computing without
inadvertently aliasing any words that differ only by non-ASCII
element. Here’s a handy iconv-invoking function to do that…
returnTo1963 <- function(x){
iconv(x, from = "UTF-8", to = 'ASCII//TRANSLIT')
}
Transliteration is the key concept here. On a data.frame you can use
it like:
dimnames(df) <- lapply(dimnames(df), returnTo1963)
