Character String Processing Facilities
Description
Allows for fast, correct, consistent, portable,
as well as convenient character string/text processing in every locale
and any native encoding. Owing to the use of the ICU library,
the package provides R users with platform-independent functions
known to Java, Perl, Python, PHP, and Ruby programmers.
Among available features there are: pattern searching
(e.g. via regular expressions), random string generation,
string collation, transliteration, concatenation,
date-time formatting and parsing, etc.