Normalize hashtags inside files

normalize_hashtags() lower case and remove accents and non-alphanumeric characters from hashtags.

Usage

normalize_hashtags(dir = utils::choose.dir(), tag_line = 1)

Arguments

dir

(optional) a string indicating the directory of the files. This function will look up just for files, directories will not be affected. (default:: utils::choose.dir()).

tag_line

(optional) a number indicating the line where the tags are in.

Value

An invisible NULL. This function don't aim to return values.

Tip

normalize_hashtags(normalizePath(readClipboard(), "/", mustWork = FALSE))

See also

Other file functions: blank_line_neighbors(), normalize_names(), remove_blank_line_dups(), replace_in_file(), split_file()

Examples

file_name <- tempfile(tmpdir = tempfile())
dir_name <- dirname(file_name)
dir.create(dir_name)
file.create(file_name)
#> [1] TRUE

con <- file(file_name, "r+")
data <- c("#tEs43(23)ds #45&$dAAsad-dsade", "", "Test", "")
writeLines(data, con = con)
close(con)

normalize_hashtags(dir_name, tag_line = 1)

con <- file(file_name, "r+")
readLines(con)
#> [1] "#tes4323ds #45daasad-dsade" ""                          
#> [3] "Test"                       ""                          
#> [5] "st"                         ""                          
close(con)