Recode emojis with a textual description — limpiar_recode

Main usage is for pre-processing the text variable as part of Deep Learning pipeline. The most important argument is whether or not to add the emoji tag, which will also print in snake case.

Usage

limpiar_recode_emojis(data, text_var = mention_content, with_emoji_tag = FALSE)

Arguments

data: Name of your Data Frame or Tibble object
text_var: Name of your text variable. Can be given as a 'string' or a symbol - should refer to a column inside data
with_emoji_tag: Whether to replace with snakecase linked words or not

Value

The Data Frame or Tibble object with most emojis cleaned from the text variable

Examples

 emojis <- data.frame(
 text = c("Hello 👋 World",
  "Family: 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦",
  "Coding 👨🏽‍💻",
  "Flags 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇸",
  "Weather ☀️ ⛈️ ❄️")
)

emojis
#>               text
#> 1   Hello 👋 World
#> 2 Family: 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
#> 3    Coding 👨🏽‍💻
#> 4     Flags 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇸
#> 5    Weather ☀️ ⛈️ ❄️

# Without tagging and combining:
limpiar_recode_emojis(emojis, text)
#>                                                     text
#> 1                                Hello waving hand World
#> 2                          Family: man ‍ woman ‍ girl ‍ boy
#> 3                                   Coding man 🏽‍ laptop
#> 4          Flags white flag ️‍ rainbow flag: United States
#> 5 Weather sun ️ cloud with lightning and rain ️ snowflake ️

# With tagging and combining:
limpiar_recode_emojis(emojis, text, TRUE)
#>                                                                       text
#> 1                                            Hello waving_hand_emoji World
#> 2                    Family: man_emoji ‍ woman_emoji ‍ girl_emoji ‍ boy_emoji
#> 3                                         Coding man_emoji 🏽‍ laptop_emoji
#> 4          Flags white_flag_emoji ️‍ rainbow_emoji flag:_United_States_emoji
#> 5 Weather sun_emoji ️ cloud_with_lightning_and_rain_emoji ️ snowflake_emoji ️

# using limpiar_remove_emojis() to remove them entirely:
limpiar_remove_emojis(emojis, text)
#>           text
#> 1 Hello  World
#> 2     Family: ‍‍‍
#> 3      Coding ‍
#> 4      Flags ‍ 
#> 5   Weather