String processing is not glamorous, but it is frequently used in data cleaning and preparation. The existing string functions in R are powerful, but not friendly. To remedy this, the stringr package provides string functions that are simpler and more consistent, and also fixes some functionality that R is missing compared to other programming languages.
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Wickham, "The R Journal: stringr: modern, consistent string processing", The R Journal, 2010
BibTeX citation
@article{RJ-2010-012,
author = {Wickham, Hadley},
title = {The R Journal: stringr: modern, consistent string processing},
journal = {The R Journal},
year = {2010},
note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2010-012},
doi = {10.32614/RJ-2010-012},
volume = {2},
issue = {2},
issn = {2073-4859},
pages = {38-40}
}