forstringr

About the package

The string (or character) data type typically requires more manipulation to be helpful for data analysts. Thus, there is a need for a robust package that is up to the task. forstringr is a new package built on top of ‘stringr’ to execute various string manipulations in R programming. The main aim of ‘forstringr’ is to simplify string manipulation for R beginners. This package combines its power with the adaptability of other manipulation tools such as tidyr and dplyr. Like in the stringr package, most functions in forstringr begin with str_. For a quick video tutorial, I gave a talk at Africa R users meetup, which you can find here.

Installation

You can install forstringr package from CRAN with:

install.packages("forstringr")

or the development version from GitHub with

if(!require("devtools")){
 install.packages("devtools")
}

devtools::install_github("gbganalyst/forstringr")

Usage

Now that you have installed forstringr package, you can simply load it by using:

library(forstringr)
#> Loading required package: stringr

To get started with forstringr, read the doc.