R: Replace Kerned (Spaced) with No Space Version

replace_kern {textclean} | R Documentation

## Replace Kerned (Spaced) with No Space Version

### Description

In typography kerning is the adjustment of spacing. Often, in informal writing, adding manual spaces (a form of kerning) coupled with all capital letters is used for emphasis. This tool looks for 3 or more consecutive capital letters with spaces in between and removes the spaces. Essentially, the capitalized, kerned version is replaced with the word equivalent.

### Usage

    replace_kern(x, ...)

### Arguments

`x` | The text variable.
`...` | ignored.

### Value

Returns a vector with kern spaces removed.

### Author(s)

StackOverflow user @ctwheels

### References

https://stackoverflow.com/a/47438305/1000343

### Examples

    x <- c(
        "Welcome to A I: the best W O R L D!",
        "Hi I R is the B O M B for sure: we A G R E E indeed.",
        "A sort C A T indeed!",
        NA
    )

    replace_kern(x)

[Package textclean version 0.9.3 Index]