Clean Text

Cleans a character vector by converting to lowercase, removing or replacing specific punctuation, normalizing commas, and squishing excess whitespace.

Usage

clean_text(text)

Arguments

text

Character vector to clean.

Value

A cleaned character vector.

Examples

clean_text(c("Hello  World!?", "This--is\tR.\nTesting: 1, 2, , 3;"))
#> [1] "hello world"                 "this is r testing 1, 2, , 3"