qdapRegex (version 0.7.2)

rm_hash: Remove/Replace/Extract Hash Tags

Description

Remove/replace/extract hash tags from a string.

Usage

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

ex_hash(text.var, trim = !extract, clean = TRUE, pattern = "@rm_hash", 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_hash uses the rm_hash regex from the regular expression dictionary from the dictionary argument.

replacement

Replacement for matched pattern.

extract

logical. If TRUE the hash tags 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 hash tags removed.

References

The hash tag regular expression was taken from: http://stackoverflow.com/a/25096474/1000343

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_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
# NOT RUN {
x <- c("@hadley I like #rstats for #ggplot2 work.",
    "Difference between #magrittr and #pipeR, both implement pipeline operators for #rstats: 
        http://renkun.me/r/2014/07/26/difference-between-magrittr-and-pipeR.html @timelyportfolio",
    "Slides from great talk: @ramnath_vaidya: Interactive slides from Interactive Visualization 
        presentation #user2014. http://ramnathv.github.io/user2014-rcharts/#1"
)

rm_hash(x)
rm_hash(rm_tag(x))
ex_hash(x)

## remove just the hash symbol
rm_hash(x, replace="\\3")
# }

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