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_2

2. Stringr

William Yarberry¹  

(1)

Kingwood, TX, USA

 

2.1 Introduction

The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.

—Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam [time is unidirectional]

The next two packages, Lubridate and Stringr, omit many exceptions and tricky, oddball situations that standard manuals include by necessity. From a technical perspective, there is nothing new in this book. Indeed, much of the code is copied, with slight modifications, from the excellent, free online manuals. The ...