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remove non-ascii characters
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non-ascii.R
# remove non-ascii characters
df$text <- gsub("[^\x20-\x7E]", "", df$text)
@dlazarou
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nice job. I was trying for something equivalent.

@lp5510
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lp5510 commented Feb 22, 2018

That looks good - I will give it a try

@matthewpaulking
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Thanks for this! Worked perfectly for sanitizing some GPS coordinates.

@rkp600
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rkp600 commented Jun 3, 2018

Worked

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