Statistics, Department of
The R Journal
Date of this Version
12-2019
Document Type
Article
Citation
The R Journal (December 2019) 11(2); Editor: Michael J. Kane
Abstract
Regular expressions are powerful tools for manipulating non-tabular textual data. For many tasks (visualization, machine learning, etc), tables of numbers must be extracted from such data before processing by other R functions. We present the R package namedCapture, which facilitates such tasks by providing a new user-friendly syntax for defining regular expressions in R code. We begin by describing the history of regular expressions and their usage in R. We then describe the new features of the namedCapture package, and provide detailed comparisons with related R packages (rex, stringr, stringi, tidyr, rematch2, re2r).
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Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing Commons, Programming Languages and Compilers Commons
Comments
Copyright 2019, The R Foundation. Open access material. License: CC BY 4.0 International