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Working with Strings: stringr

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The stringr package gives you functions for string manipulation. The package will be loaded when you load the tidyverse package:

library(tidyverse)

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    Regular expressions are beyond the scope of this book, but if you are frequently working with strings, you might want to familiarize yourself with them.

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Mailund, T. (2019). Working with Strings: stringr. In: R Data Science Quick Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4894-2_8

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