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30 lines
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R
30 lines
967 B
R
#' Replacing specific characters or string elements with gsub()
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#'
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#' Using gsub() to make repeated character string element replacements.
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#' @param char.vec Vector of elements with to replace.
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#' @param to.be.rep Vector of characters to replace.
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#' @param replacement Vector of characters to replace with.
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#' @keywords replace
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#' @export
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#' @examples
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#' n <- c("Se, en fraek raev", "Oesterland", "Aalborg", "Soester Aase", "Soendergaard")
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#' p <- c('Ae', 'ae', 'Oe', 'oe','Aa','aa')
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#' r <- c('Æ', 'æ', 'Ø', 'ø','Å','å')
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#' replace_char(n,p,r)
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replace_char<-function(char.vec,to.be.rep,replacement){
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if (length(to.be.rep)!=length(replacement)) {stop("Replacement vectors are not the same length")}
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if (!is.vector(char.vec)) {stop("The provided data should be a vector")}
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n<-char.vec
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for(i in seq_along(n)) {
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s<-n[i]
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for (j in seq_along(to.be.rep)){
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s <- gsub(to.be.rep[j],replacement[j], s)
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}
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n[i]<-s
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}
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return(n)
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}
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