Cyrillic transliteration in R

Question

Are there packages for Cyrillic text transliteration to Latin in R? I need to convert data frames to Latin to use factors. It is somewhat messy to use Cyrillic factors in R.

Answer 1

It is possible to do it with stringi package as you above, but with different transform identifier, for Serbian latin:

`stri_trans_general("жшчћђ", "Serbian-Latin/BGN")`

All characters should be transformed correctly to Serbian latin.