multigsub: Multiple gsub

In linogaliana/tablelight: R package to reduce memory needs when creating regression tables

Description

multigsub - Borrowed from qdap library. A wrapper for gsub that takes a vector of search terms and a vector or single value of replacements.

Usage

mgsub(pattern, replacement, text.var, fixed = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

pattern	Character string to be matched in the given character vector.
replacement	Character string equal in length to pattern or of length one which are a replacement for matched pattern.
text.var	The text variable.
fixed	logical. If TRUE, pattern is a string to be matched as is. Overrides all conflicting arguments.
...	Additional arguments passed to gsub.

Value

multigsub - Returns a vector with the pattern replaced.

See Also

gsub

Examples

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mgsub(c("it's", "I'm"), c("it is", "I am"), DATA$state)
mgsub("[[:punct:]]", "PUNC", DATA$state, fixed = FALSE)


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