rm_abbreviation: Remove/Replace/Extract Abbreviations

Description

Remove/replace/extract abbreviations from a string containing lower case or capital letters followed by a period and then an optional space (this must be repeated 2 or more times).

Usage

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

Value

Returns a character string with abbreviations removed.

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_abbreviation uses the rm_abbreviation regex from the regular expression dictionary from the dictionary argument.
replacement: Replacement for matched pattern.
extract: logical. If TRUE the abbreviations 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.

Other rm_ functions: rm_between(), rm_bracket(), rm_caps(), rm_caps_phrase(), rm_citation(), rm_citation_tex(), rm_city_state(), rm_city_state_zip(), 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_characters(), rm_repeated_phrases(), rm_repeated_words(), rm_tag(), rm_time(), rm_title_name(), rm_url(), rm_white(), rm_zip()

Examples

Run this code

x <- c("I want $2.33 at 2:30 p.m. to go to A.n.p.",
    "She will send it A.S.A.P. (e.g. as soon as you can) said I.",
    "Hello world.", "In the U. S. A.")
rm_abbreviation(x)
ex_abbreviation(x)

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