plain_tweets returns the same text

[cecilesauder]

Problem

The plain_tweets() returns the same text without cleaning up

Expected behavior

Returning data reformatted with ascii encoding and normal ampersands and without URL links, line breaks, fancy spaces/tabs, fancy apostrophes... 😺

Reproduce the problem

rtweet::plain_tweets("Test @blablabla Don't Remove #What He Has to")
#> [1] "Test @blablabla Don't Remove #What He Has to"

^{Created on 2018-11-16 by the reprex package (v0.2.1)}

rtweet version

‘0.6.8.9000’

## copy/paste output
packageVersion("rtweet")

Session info

## copy/paste output
sessionInfo()

R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows >= 8 x64 (build 9200)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252 LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=French_France.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] reprex_0.2.1 rtweet_0.6.8.9000

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_1.0.0 pillar_1.3.0 compiler_3.5.1 later_0.7.5 prettyunits_1.0.2
[6] base64enc_0.1-3 tools_3.5.1 progress_1.2.0 digest_0.6.18 jsonlite_1.5
[11] evaluate_0.12 tibble_1.4.2 pkgconfig_2.0.2 rlang_0.3.0.1 cli_1.0.1
[16] rstudioapi_0.8 curl_3.2 yaml_2.2.0 httr_1.3.1 knitr_1.20
[21] fs_1.2.6 hms_0.4.2 rprojroot_1.3-2 R6_2.3.0 processx_3.2.0
[26] fansi_0.4.0 rmarkdown_1.10 callr_3.0.0 clipr_0.4.1 magrittr_1.5
[31] whisker_0.3-2 backports_1.1.2 promises_1.0.1 ps_1.2.1 htmltools_0.3.6
[36] assertthat_0.2.0 httpuv_1.4.5 utf8_1.1.4 openssl_1.0.2 crayon_1.3.4

Token

## copy/paste output
rtweet::get_token()

request: https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token authorize: https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authenticate access: https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token rstats2twitter key: 6j7Ig4xzHlBr8uUJ5A4Ym0NTf secret: oauth_token, oauth_token_secret, user_id, screen_name ---

[llrs]

The function doesn't seem to be much documented it removes links, line breeaks, "fancy spaces", "fancy apostrophes" ampersand and removes any non ASCII code. The example doesn't have anything of this.
Try the following rtweet::plain_tweets("Maëlle\nCalçot’s\thouse")

[hadley]

I think we should probably deprecate this function rather than documenting it further.

[llrs]

Yeah, there might be better tools for processing texts.