mgsub {mgsub}

Safe, multiple gsub

Description

mgsub - A safe, simultaneous, multiple global string replacement wrapper that allows access to multiple methods of specifying matches and replacements.

Usage

mgsub(string, pattern, replacement, recycle = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

string

a character vector where replacements are sought

pattern

Character string to be matched in the given character vector

replacement

Character string equal in length to pattern or of length one which are a replacement for matched pattern.

recycle

logical. should replacement be recycled if lengths differ?

...

arguments to pass to regexpr / sub

Value

Converted string.

Examples

mgsub("hey, ho", pattern = c("hey", "ho"), replacement = c("ho", "hey"))
mgsub("developer", pattern = c("e", "p"), replacement = c("p", "e"))
mgsub("The chemical Dopaziamine is fake",
      pattern = c("dopa(.*?) ", "fake"),
      replacement = c("mega\\1 ", "real"),
      ignore.case = TRUE)