The stringr package gives you functions for string manipulation. The package will be loaded when you load the tidyverse package
:
library(tidyverse)
You can also load the package alone using
library(stringr)
Counting String Patterns
The str_count() function counts how many tokens a string contain, where tokens, for example, can be characters or words.
By default, str_count() will count the number of characters in a string.
strings <- c(
"Give me an ice cream",
"Get yourself an ice cream",
"We are all out of ice creams",
"I scream, you scream, everybody loves ice cream.", ...
