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selecting list only words witj latin letter in R

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text=c(車、,男,犬, sba, druzhba)

How can i get list only with words with latin letter

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sba
druzhba
Solution

  • The stringr package can be used for this. See ?"stringi-search-charclass" for details about how to use unicode properties. 

    text=c("車","男","犬", "sba", "druzhba")

library(stringr)
text[str_detect(text, "[\\p{Letter}&&\\p{script=latin}]")]