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Replace shortcodes with emoji (emojize)

Source: R/emoji-translate.R
text_to_emoji.Rd

text_to_emoji() returns a copy of data with its text column rewritten so that every :shortcode: token is replaced by the corresponding emoji glyph (the inverse of emoji_to_text() with format = "shortcode"). Shortcodes that do not match a known emoji are left unchanged.

Usage

text_to_emoji(data, text)

Arguments

data

A data frame or tibble containing a text column.

text

The text column to scan, supplied unquoted.

Value

data, as a tibble, with the text column rewritten in place. NA entries stay NA.

Details

A shortcode token is a colon, one or more of A-Z, a-z, 0-9, _, + or -, and a closing colon. Restricting the token this way means colons used for other purposes – clock times, URLs, ratios, ordinary punctuation – cannot swallow a following shortcode: "meet at 10:30 :wave:" still emojizes the wave.

See also

emoji_to_text(); as_emoji() for the vector helper.

Examples

df <- data.frame(text = "hi :grinning: bye :waving_hand:")
text_to_emoji(df, text)
#> # A tibble: 1 × 1
#>   text        
#>   <chr>       
#> 1 hi 😀 bye 👋

# colons elsewhere in the text do not interfere
text_to_emoji(data.frame(text = "https://example.org at 10:30 :grinning:"),
              text)
#> # A tibble: 1 × 1
#>   text                           
#>   <chr>                          
#> 1 https://example.org at 10:30 😀