The “str_replace” Function in R
Package: stringr
Purpose: To replace matched patterns in a character vector with new values.
General Class: String Manipulation
Required Argument(s):
string: A character vector in which to replace patterns.
pattern: The pattern to be replaced.
replacement: The replacement value or pattern.
Notable Optional Arguments:
...: Additional arguments influencing the replacement process, such as ignore_case to perform case-insensitive matching.
Example:
# Example usage
library(stringr)
sentence <- "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
# Replace "fox" with "cat"
modified_sentence <- str_replace(sentence, pattern = "fox", replacement = "cat")
print(modified_sentence)In this example, the str_replace function from the stringr package is used to replace the pattern “fox” with the replacement “cat” in the character vector sentence. The result is a modified character vector.
