string functions
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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