Text Manipulation in R with stringr

In R, a string is a sequence of quoted characters. It is used to represent text data. It is created by enclosing a sequence of characters in either single quotes, e.g., 'This is a string.', or a double quote, e.g., "This is also a string.". When handling strings, stringr is a powerful tool, and is also a core package in the tidyverse collection.

Installation

install.packages("stringr")

Alternatively, we can install all the tidyverse packages including stringr.

install.packages("tidyverse")

In the following sections, let’s dive into a variety of functions that will cover a range of common string operations.