There are a lot of string replacement questions, but I could not find one that addressed this issue specifically. I have a too long and slow if else f ...

I wrote a function that transforms a string representing a number (magrittr loaded in my system): So that: The goal is to transform the ocurrenc ...

I'm trying to match a partial pattern of the variable names in my data set and replace them all with another pattern using gsubfn(). I'm using R vers ...

I have a column of roughly 1300 characters which I need to extract a single date from, if the character contains a date (i.e. if NA then no date to be ...

I analyse text strings and I try replace all dots . within round brackets () with commas , I found a regex that matches eveything within the brackets ...

I am trying to extract the most recent date that a report was added in an R dataframe of reports. The text always looks like Date Ordered: M/DD/YYYY a ...

Search-and-replace an element in a data frame given a list of replacements. Code: Expected Output: My current output: Been looking around f ...

I have a string like this: I want to replace, "in" to %in%", "AND" to "&", "OR" to "|". I know this can be done using gsub like below: but ...

I am trying to remove a block of text that wraps around what I want to keep. So I wanted to assign variables since the text can be long. This is an ex ...

I have a data set where every observation has an ID value describing multiple things, for example AE1 indicates site A, type E, observation 1. I am tr ...

I have some text where people use capitals with spaces in between to make the substring standout. I want to replace the spaces between these substring ...