equals.String: Compares this string to the specified object
In HenrikBengtsson/R.lang: [R] Class Library - Basic classes

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Compares this string to the specified object. The result is TRUE if and only if the argument is not null and is a String object or a character string that represents the same sequence of characters as this object.

1 2	## S3 method for class 'String' equals(this, obj, ...)

obj

The object to compared to.

Returns TRUE if the the strings are equal, otherwise FALSE.

Henrik Bengtsson (http://www.braju.com/R/)

*equalsIgnoreCase(), *compareTo(), *regionMatches()

  s1 <- String("Hello world!")
  s2 <- String("hello world!")
  s3 <- String("Hello world!")

  equals(s1, s1)         # TRUE
  equals(s1, s2)         # FALSE
  equals(s1, s3)         # TRUE
  equals("abc", "ABC")   # FALSE