[R] string functions

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Sun Sep 14 20:11:16 CEST 2008


Start with

?grep

and then follow the "See Also".  Exactly what type of serious parsing
are you trying to do?  R can do some, but if it is very complex, you
might want to consider awk/perl.

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:53 PM, zubin <binabina at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Hello, trying to locate all the string commands in the base version of R,
> can't seem to find an area that describes them. I am in need to do some
> serious parsing of text data to create my dataset.  Is there a summary link
> to all the character operators?  string manipulations that would help in
> parsing text.
>
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What is the problem that you are trying to solve?



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