Message-ID: <s75fd735.098@tedmail.lgc.co.uk>
Date: 2007-12-12T12:42:18Z
From: S Ellison
Subject: book on regular expressions
>>> "hadley wickham" <h.wickham at gmail.com> 11/12/2007 17:02 >>>
> Could someone recommend a good book on regular expressions with focus
on
> applications/use as it might relate to R. I remember there was a
mention of
> such a reference book recently, but I could not locate that message
on the
> archive.
It's not specific to R, which wraps regular expressions up in quoted
strings so has a couple of wrinkles compared to Perl, but I found the
O'Reilly " Regular Expression Pocket Reference" a good quick reference,
and rather cheaper than the whole book. It's hard to see R users needing
chapter and verse on the complete gamut of regexps.
Steve E