Completely Remove Most Emojis from Text

uses a simple Regular Expression (RegEx) to clear most emojis from the text variable. Attempts to handle emojis which are joined together - like family emojis, and 'edited emojis' like those with skin tones etc. set

Usage

limpiar_remove_emojis(data, text_var = mention_content)

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

Value

Data Frame with the text variable cleaned in place

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 ☀️ ⛈️ ❄️

# 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