replace_tag {textclean}

Replace Handle Tags

Description

Replaces Twitter style handle tags (e.g., '@trinker').

Usage

replace_tag(x, pattern = qdapRegex::grab("rm_tag"), replacement = "", ...)

Arguments

x

The text variable.

pattern

Character time 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 tags replaced.

Examples

x <- c("@hadley I like #rstats for #ggplot2 work.",
    "Difference between #magrittr and #pipeR, both implement pipeline operators for #rstats: 
        http://renkun.me/r/2014/07/26/difference-between-magrittr-and-pipeR.html @timelyportfolio",
    "Slides from great talk: @ramnath_vaidya: Interactive slides from Interactive Visualization 
        presentation #user2014. http://ramnathv.github.io/user2014-rcharts/#1"
)

replace_tag(x)
replace_tag(x, replacement = '<<TAG>>')
replace_tag(x, replacement = '$3')

## Replacement with a function
replace_tag(x, 
    replacement = function(x){
        gsub('@', ' <<TO>> ', x)
    }
)