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In hrbrmstr/pluralize: Pluralize and 'Singularize' Any (English) Word

pluralize

Pluralize and ‘Singularize’ Any (English) Word

Description

Tools are provided to create plural, singular and regular forms of English words along with tools to augment the built-in rules to fit specializied needs. Core functionality is based on a JavaScript library, https://github.com/blakeembrey/pluralize.

What’s Inside The Tin

The following functions are implemented:

• add_irregular_rule: Add a custom rule for making “deregularizing” a word
• add_plural_rule: Add a custom rule for making a word plural
• add_singular_rule: Add a custom rule for making a word singular
• add_uncountable_rule: Make a word “uncountable”
• is_plural: Test plural state of a word
• pluralize: Pluralize a word
• singularize: Singularize a word

Installation

remotes::install_gitlab("hrbrmstr/pluralize")
# or
remotes::install_github("hrbrmstr/pluralize")

NOTE: To use the ‘remotes’ install options you will need to have the {remotes} package installed.

Usage

library(pluralize)

# current version
packageVersion("pluralize")
## [1] '0.2.0'

pluralize('test')
## [1] "tests"

singularize('test')
## [1] "test"

singularize(c("boats", "houses", "cats", "rivers"))
## [1] "boat"  "house" "cat"   "river"

pluralize(singularize(c("boats", "houses", "cats", "rivers")))
## [1] "boats"  "houses" "cats"   "rivers"

singularize(c("buses", "wishes", "pitches", "boxexs"))
## [1] "bus"   "wish"  "pitch" "boxex"

pluralize(singularize(c("buses", "wishes", "pitches", "boxexs")))
## [1] "buses"   "wishes"  "pitches" "boxexes"

singularize(c("pennies", "spies", "babies", "cities", "daisies"))
## [1] "penny"  "spy"    "baby"   "city"   "daisie"

pluralize(singularize(c("pennies", "spies", "babies", "cities", "daisies")))
## [1] "pennies" "spies"   "babies"  "cities"  "daisies"

singularize(c("sheep", "fish", "deer", "species", "aircraft"))
## [1] "sheep"    "fish"     "deer"     "specie"   "aircraft"

pluralize(singularize(c("sheep", "fish", "deer", "species", "aircraft")))
## [1] "sheep"    "fish"     "deer"     "species"  "aircraft"

pluralize('test', 5)
## [1] "tests"

pluralize('test', 5, TRUE)
## [1] "5 tests"

pluralize('regex')
## [1] "regexes"

add_plural_rule("gex", "gexii")

pluralize('regex')
## [1] "regexii"

singularize('singles')
## [1] "single"

add_singular_rule("singles", "singular")

singularize('singles')
## [1] "singular"

pluralize("irregular")
## [1] "irregulars"

pluralize(c("woman", "man", "child", "tooth", "foot", "person", "leaf"))
## [1] "women"    "men"      "children" "teeth"    "feet"     "people"   "leaves"

singularize(c("woman", "man", "child", "tooth", "foot", "person", "leaf"))
## [1] "woman"  "man"    "child"  "tooth"  "foot"   "person" "leaf"

add_irregular_rule("irregular", "regular")

pluralize("irregular")
## [1] "regular"

pluralize("paper")
## [1] "papers"

add_uncountable_rule("paper")

pluralize("paper")
## [1] "paper"

pluralize Metrics

| Lang | # Files | (%) | LoC | (%) | Blank lines | (%) | # Lines | (%) | | :--- | -------: | --: | --: | ---: | ----------: | ---: | -------: | ---: | | HTML | 1 | 0.1 | 367 | 0.79 | 33 | 0.28 | 2 | 0.01 | | Rmd | 2 | 0.2 | 58 | 0.12 | 72 | 0.61 | 71 | 0.39 | | R | 7 | 0.7 | 40 | 0.09 | 13 | 0.11 | 108 | 0.60 |

Code of Conduct

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

hrbrmstr/pluralize documentation built on Feb. 24, 2023, 8:08 p.m.