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String Manipulation and Regular Expressions in R
R is a very powerful programming language for data tasks. This course will teach you how to use R to clean up strings, extract patterns from strings with regular expressions, split strings, and transform string casing.
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String Manipulation and Regular Expressions in R
R is a very powerful programming language for data tasks. This course will teach you how to use R to clean up strings, extract patterns from strings with regular expressions, split strings, and transform string casing.
Beginner
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What you'll learn
While R is a great programming language for numerical computations and statistical analysis, it also has excellent capabilities for string manipulation. In this course, String Manipulation and Regular Expressions in R, you will learn the skills to use R for text processing and pattern matching. First, you will learn how to clean messy text by finding and replacing strings. Second, you will explore how to extract specific string patterns using regular expressions. Next, you will cover how to split strings. Finally, you will discover how to convert text to different cases. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the necessary skills to start processing text with R.
String Manipulation and Regular Expressions in R
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As a software engineer and lifelong learner, Dan wrote a PhD thesis and many highly-cited publications on decision making and knowledge acquisition in software architecture. Dan used Microsoft technologies for many years, but moved gradually to Python, Linux and AWS to gain different perspectives of the computing world.