as_character: Coerce object to character

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Coerce object to character

Description

This method turns its argument x, or at least part of the information in it, into a character vector.

Usage

as_character(x, ...)

## Default S3 method:
as_character(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 're'
as_character(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'tokens'
as_character(x, ...)

Arguments

x	Object to coerce to character
...	Additional arguments

Value

Object of class character

Examples

(tks <- tokenize("The old man and the sea."))
as_character(tks) # turn 'tokens' object into character vector
as.character(tks) # alternative approach

as_character(1:10)
as.character(1:10)

regex <- re("(?xi) ^ .*")
as_character(regex) # turn 're' object into character vector
as.character(regex) # alternative approach

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