Substitution of Special Characters

Substitution of Special Characters

Usage

substSpecialChars(x, deuOnly = FALSE)

Arguments

x

string containing special characters to be substituted

deuOnly

logical. If TRUE only the German special characters Umlaute and Eszett are replaced.

Value

input string x with special characters being substituted by a meaningful represenation or underscore, multiple underscores replaced by a single underscore and multiple underscores at the end removed.