I am trying to simplify a text variable by matching and replacing it with a
string in another vector

so for example in
colours <- paste(letters,colours(),"stuff",LETTERS)

find and replace with ("red","blue","green","gray","yellow","other")  -
irrespective of case

its a large dataset, so i'd like to be able to do this as efficiently as
possible.

thanks for any help

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