R package for simple string manipulation
Description
Clean, wrangle, and parse character [string] vectors using base exclusively base R functions.
Usage
Detect
Detect text patterns (an easy-to-use wrapper for base::grep() and base::grepl()).
## return logical vector
chr_detect(letters, "a|b|c|x|y|z")
#> [1] TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE
#> [12] FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE
#> [23] FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE
## return inverted logical values
chr_detect(letters, "a|b|c|x|y|z", invert = TRUE)
#> [1] FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
#> [12] TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
#> [23] TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE
## return matching positions
chr_detect(letters, "a|b|c|x|y|z", which = TRUE)
#> [1] 1 2 3 24 25 26
## return inverted matching positions
chr_detect(letters, "a|b|c|x|y|z", which = TRUE, invert = TRUE)
#> [1] 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
## return matching values
chr_detect(letters, "a|b|c|x|y|z", value = TRUE)
#> [1] "a" "b" "c" "x" "y" "z"
## return inverted matching values
chr_detect(letters, "a|b|c|x|y|z", value = TRUE, invert = TRUE)
#> [1] "d" "e" "f" "g" "h" "i" "j" "k" "l" "m" "n" "o" "p" "q" "r" "s" "t"
#> [18] "u" "v" "w"Extract
Extract text patterns.
## some text strings
x <- c("this one is @there
has #MultipleLines https://github.com and
http://twitter.com @twitter",
"this @one #istotally their and
some non-ascii symbols: \u00BF \u037E",
"this one is they're https://github.com",
"this one #HasHashtags #afew #ofthem",
"and more @kearneymw at https://mikew.com")
## extract all URLS
chr_extract_links(x)
#> [[1]]
#> [1] "https://github.com" "http://twitter.com"
#>
#> [[2]]
#> [1] NA
#>
#> [[3]]
#> [1] "https://github.com"
#>
#> [[4]]
#> [1] NA
#>
#> [[5]]
#> [1] "https://mikew.com"
## extract all hashtags
chr_extract_hashtags(x)
#> [[1]]
#> [1] "MultipleLines"
#>
#> [[2]]
#> [1] "istotally"
#>
#> [[3]]
#> [1] NA
#>
#> [[4]]
#> [1] "HasHashtags" "afew" "ofthem"
#>
#> [[5]]
#> [1] NA
## extract mentions
chr_extract_mentions(x)
#> [[1]]
#> [1] "there" "twitter"
#>
#> [[2]]
#> [1] "one"
#>
#> [[3]]
#> [1] NA
#>
#> [[4]]
#> [1] NA
#>
#> [[5]]
#> [1] "kearneymw"Remove
Remove text patterns.
## remove URLS
chr_remove_links(x)
#> [1] "this one is @there\n has #MultipleLines and \n @twitter"
#> [2] "this @one #istotally their and \n some non-ascii symbols: ¿ ;"
#> [3] "this one is they're "
#> [4] "this one #HasHashtags #afew #ofthem"
#> [5] "and more @kearneymw at "
## string together functions with magrittr pipe
library(magrittr)
## remove mentions and extra [white] spaces
chr_remove_mentions(x) %>%
chr_remove_ws()
#> [1] "this one is has #MultipleLines https://github.com and http://twitter.com"
#> [2] "this #istotally their and some non-ascii symbols: ¿ ;"
#> [3] "this one is they're https://github.com"
#> [4] "this one #HasHashtags #afew #ofthem"
#> [5] "and more at https://mikew.com"
## remove hashtags
chr_remove_hashtags(x)
#> [1] "this one is @there\n has https://github.com and \n http://twitter.com @twitter"
#> [2] "this @one their and \n some non-ascii symbols: ¿ ;"
#> [3] "this one is they're https://github.com"
#> [4] "this one "
#> [5] "and more @kearneymw at https://mikew.com"
## remove hashtags, line breaks, and extra spaces
x %>%
chr_remove_hashtags() %>%
chr_remove_linebreaks() %>%
chr_remove_ws()
#> [1] "this one is @there has https://github.com and http://twitter.com @twitter"
#> [2] "this @one their and some non-ascii symbols: ¿ ;"
#> [3] "this one is they're https://github.com"
#> [4] "this one"
#> [5] "and more @kearneymw at https://mikew.com"
## remove links and extract words
x %>%
chr_remove_links() %>%
chr_remove_mentions() %>%
chr_extract_words()
#> [[1]]
#> [1] "this" "one" "is" "has"
#> [5] "MultipleLines" "and"
#>
#> [[2]]
#> [1] "this" "istotally" "their" "and" "some" "non-ascii"
#> [7] "symbols"
#>
#> [[3]]
#> [1] "this" "one" "is" "they're"
#>
#> [[4]]
#> [1] "this" "one" "HasHashtags" "afew" "ofthem"
#>
#> [[5]]
#> [1] "and" "more" "at"Replace
Replace text with string.
## replace their with they're
chr_replace(x, "their", "they're", ignore.case = TRUE)
#> [1] "this one is @there\n has #MultipleLines https://github.com and \n http://twitter.com @twitter"
#> [2] "this @one #istotally they're and \n some non-ascii symbols: ¿ ;"
#> [3] "this one is they're https://github.com"
#> [4] "this one #HasHashtags #afew #ofthem"
#> [5] "and more @kearneymw at https://mikew.com"ASCII functions currently in progress. For example, replace non-ASCII symbols with similar ASCII characters (work in progress).
## ascii version
chr_replace_nonascii(x)
#> [1] "this one is @there\n has #MultipleLines https://github.com and \n http://twitter.com @twitter"
#> [2] "this @one #istotally their and \n some non-ascii symbols: ? ;"
#> [3] "this one is they're https://github.com"
#> [4] "this one #HasHashtags #afew #ofthem"
#> [5] "and more @kearneymw at https://mikew.com"n-grams
Create ngrams at the character-level.
## character vector
x <- c("Acme Pizza, Inc.", "Tom's Sports Equipment, LLC")
## 2 char level ngram
chr_ngram_char(x, n = 2L)
#> [[1]]
#> [1] "Ac" "cm" "me" "e " " P" "Pi" "iz" "zz" "za" "a," ", " " I" "In" "nc"
#> [15] "c."
#>
#> [[2]]
#> [1] "To" "om" "m'" "'s" "s " " S" "Sp" "po" "or" "rt" "ts" "s " " E" "Eq"
#> [15] "qu" "ui" "ip" "pm" "me" "en" "nt" "t," ", " " L" "LL" "LC"
## 3 char level ngram in lower case and stripped of punctation and white space
chr_ngram_char(x, n = 3L, lower = TRUE, punct = TRUE, space = TRUE)
#> [[1]]
#> [1] "acm" "cme" "mep" "epi" "piz" "izz" "zza" "zai" "ain" "inc"
#>
#> [[2]]
#> [1] "tom" "oms" "mss" "ssp" "spo" "por" "ort" "rts" "tse" "seq" "equ"
#> [12] "qui" "uip" "ipm" "pme" "men" "ent" "ntl" "tll" "llc"Contributions
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