Chapter 13. Manipulating Strings
Strings (character data) often need to be constructed or deconstructed to identify observations, preprocess text, combine information or satisfy any number of other needs. R offers functions for building strings, like paste and sprintf. It also provides a number of functions for using regular expressions and examining text data, although for those purposes it is better to use Hadley Wickham’s stringr package.
13.1. paste
The first function new R users reach for when putting together strings is paste. This function takes a series of strings, or expressions that evaluate to strings, and puts them together into one string. We start by putting together three simple strings.
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