rm_repeated_characters {qdapRegex}R Documentation

Remove/Replace/Extract Words With Repeating Characters

Description

Remove/replace/extract words with repeating characters. The word must contain characters, each repeating at east 2 times

Usage

rm_repeated_characters(text.var, trim = !extract, clean = TRUE,
  pattern = "@rm_repeated_characters", replacement = "", extract = FALSE,
  dictionary = getOption("regex.library"), ...)

ex_repeated_characters(text.var, trim = !extract, clean = TRUE,
  pattern = "@rm_repeated_characters", replacement = "", extract = TRUE,
  dictionary = getOption("regex.library"), ...)

Arguments

text.var

The text variable.

trim

logical. If TRUE removes leading and trailing white spaces.

clean

trim logical. If TRUE extra white spaces and escaped character will be removed.

pattern

A character string containing a regular expression (or character string for fixed = TRUE) to be matched in the given character vector. Default, @rm_repeated_characters uses the rm_repeated_characters regex from the regular expression dictionary from the dictionary argument.

replacement

Replacement for matched pattern.

extract

logical. If TRUE the words with repeating characters are extracted into a list of vectors.

dictionary

A dictionary of canned regular expressions to search within if pattern begins with "@rm_".

...

Other arguments passed to gsub.

Value

Returns a character string with percentages removed.

Author(s)

stackoverflow's vks and Tyler Rinker <tyler.rinker@gmail.com>.

References

http://stackoverflow.com/a/29438461/1000343

See Also

gsub, stri_extract_all_regex

Other rm_ functions: rm_abbreviation, rm_between, rm_bracket, rm_caps_phrase, rm_caps, rm_citation_tex, rm_citation, rm_city_state_zip, rm_city_state, rm_date, rm_default, rm_dollar, rm_email, rm_emoticon, rm_endmark, rm_hash, rm_nchar_words, rm_non_ascii, rm_non_words, rm_number, rm_percent, rm_phone, rm_postal_code, rm_repeated_phrases, rm_repeated_words, rm_tag, rm_time, rm_title_name, rm_url, rm_white, rm_zip

Examples

x <- "aaaahahahahaha that was a good joke peep and pepper and pepe"
rm_repeated_characters(x)
ex_repeated_characters(x)
[Package qdapRegex version 0.7.2 Index]