https://github.com/gagolews/stringx

Drop-in replacements for base R string functions powered by stringi
https://github.com/gagolews/stringx

icu icu4c natural-language-processing nlp r regex regexp string-manipulation stringi text text-processing unicode

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Drop-in replacements for base R string functions powered by stringi

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gagolews/stringx
• Owner: gagolews
• License: other
• Created: 2021-05-07T02:28:32.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-12T11:00:59.000Z (6 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-06T04:34:40.270Z (28 days ago)
• Topics: icu, icu4c, natural-language-processing, nlp, r, regex, regexp, string-manipulation, stringi, text, text-processing, unicode
• Language: HTML
• Homepage: https://stringx.gagolewski.com
• Size: 16.2 MB
• Stars: 28
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 9
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: NEWS
  • License: LICENSE
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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# [**`stringx`**](https://stringx.gagolewski.com/)

### Replacements for base [R](https://www.r-project.org/) string functions powered by [**`stringi`**](https://stringi.gagolewski.com/)

> English is the native language for only 5% of the World population.

> Also, only 17% of us can understand this text. Moreover, the Latin alphabet

> is the main one for merely 36% of the total. The early computer era,

> now a very long time ago, was dominated by the US. Due to the proliferation

> of the internet, smartphones, social media, and other technologies and media,

> this is no longer the case. This package replaces base R string functions

> with ones that fully support the Unicode standards related to natural

> language and date-time processing. Thanks to

> [ICU (International Components for Unicode)](https://icu.unicode.org/)

> and [**`stringi`**](https://stringi.gagolewski.com/),

> they are fast, reliable, and portable across different platforms.

[**`stringx`**](https://stringx.gagolewski.com/) replaces base

[R](https://www.r-project.org/) functions like

`paste`, `gregexpr`, `tolower`, and `strptime` with ones that:

* work in the same way on every platform,

* support a wide range of languages and scripts,

* fix some long-standing inconsistencies in base R

  (which are pointed out in the package

  [manual](https://stringx.gagolewski.com/)).

[**`stringx`**](https://stringx.gagolewski.com/) is a set of wrappers around

[**`stringi`**](https://stringi.gagolewski.com/) — a mature

[R](https://www.r-project.org/) package for

fast, consistent, convenient, and portable string/text/natural language

processing in any locale that relies on

[**`ICU`** – International Components for Unicode](https://icu.unicode.org/).

To learn more about R, check out Marek's open-access (free!) textbook

[*Deep R Programming*](https://deepr.gagolewski.com/).

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**Package Maintainer and Author**:

[Marek Gagolewski](https://www.gagolewski.com/)

**Homepage**: 

**CRAN Entry**: 

**License**:

**`stringx`** is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License,

either Version 2 or Version 3; see

[LICENSE](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gagolews/stringx/master/LICENSE).

**Changelog**: see

[NEWS](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gagolews/stringx/master/NEWS).