replace_date {textclean}

Replace Dates With Words

Description

Replaces dates with word equivalents.

Usage

replace_date(x, pattern = NULL, replacement = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x

The text variable.

pattern

Character date regex string to be matched in the given character vector.

replacement

A function to operate on the extracted matches or a character string which is a replacement for the matched pattern.

...

ignored.

Value

Returns a vector with the pattern replaced.

Examples

x <- c(
    NA, '11-16-1980 and 11/16/1980', 
    "and 2017-02-08 but then there's 2/8/2017 too"
)

replace_date(x)
replace_date(x, replacement = '<<DATE>>')