Remove non-ASCII characters from data.frame

This function removes all non-ASCII characters from a data.frame. This is particularly useful in non-English locales when special characters pose problems (e.g. when using the machine learning library h2o).

Usage

remove_non_ascii_from_df(df)

Arguments

df

data.frame

Value

df with non-ASCII characters removed

See also

base::iconv()

Examples

df <- df |> remove_non_ascii_from_df()
#> [1] "Removed non-ascii characters from column names and entire df"