R help - Nov 2009 - Finding & replacing non-ASCII characters

Hi guys,





Are there any feasible methods in searching & finding non-ASCII characters
in R?



For example, from the following object,



x <- mia. SzaÌmitaÌó



The desired output is,

x.out <- mia. SzaImitaIA



Your help in resolving this would be greatly appreciated.

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It works the same for me as it does for non-ASCII characters:

x <- "mia. Sza?mita???"
x.out<-gsub("??","A",x)
x.out<-gsub("??","A",x.out)
x.out<-gsub("?","I",x)
x.out<-gsub("??","A",x.out)
x.out
[1]"mia.SzaImitaIA"

-Ista

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Steven Kang <stochastickang at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
>
>
>
>
> Are there any feasible methods in searching & finding non-ASCII
characters
> in R?
>
>
>
> For example, from the following object,
>
>
>
> x <- mia. Sza?mita???
>
>
>
> The desired output is,
>
> x.out <- mia. SzaImitaIA
>
>
>
> Your help in resolving this would be greatly appreciated.
>
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>
>
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> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
>


-- 
Ista Zahn
Graduate student
University of Rochester
Department of Clinical and Social Psychology
http://yourpsyche.org

oops, get a little copy-paste happy there. Just need

x <- "mia. Sza?mita???"
x.out<-gsub("?","I",x)
x.out<-gsub("??","A",x.out)
x.out

-Ista

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com>
wrote:
> It works the same for me as it does for non-ASCII characters:
>
> x <- "mia. Sza?mita???"
> x.out<-gsub("??","A",x)
> x.out<-gsub("??","A",x.out)
> x.out<-gsub("?","I",x)
> x.out<-gsub("??","A",x.out)
> x.out
> [1]"mia.SzaImitaIA"
>
> -Ista
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Steven Kang <stochastickang at
gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Are there any feasible methods in searching & finding non-ASCII
characters
>> in R?
>>
>>
>>
>> For example, from the following object,
>>
>>
>>
>> x <- mia. Sza?mita???
>>
>>
>>
>> The desired output is,
>>
>> x.out <- mia. SzaImitaIA
>>
>>
>>
>> Your help in resolving this would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> ? ? ? ?[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> R-help at 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.
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Ista Zahn
> Graduate student
> University of Rochester
> Department of Clinical and Social Psychology
> http://yourpsyche.org
>


-- 
Ista Zahn
Graduate student
University of Rochester
Department of Clinical and Social Psychology
http://yourpsyche.org