CRAN Recipes: DPLYR, Stringr, Lubridate, and RegEx in R

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W. YarberryCRAN Recipeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6876-6_13

13. RegEx Summary

William Yarberry¹  

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Kingwood, TX, USA

 

Pain, then gain: that’s the typical result of learning regular expressions. R includes many functions which duplicate RegEx’s capability for specific actions. However, the scope of RegEx pattern matching exceeds traditional R logic. Even knowing just a few RegEx examples will speed your code development and possibly reduce execution time of your script.

My intent is to get you started with relatively simple examples which work in R without modification. With so many flavors of RegEx, finding code that will work in R challenges your ...