qdapRegex (version 0.7.8)

rm_caps_phrase: Remove/Replace/Extract All Caps Phrases

Description

Remove/replace/extract 'all caps' phrases containing 1 or more consecutive upper case letters from a string. If one word phrase the word must be 3+ letters long.

Usage

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

Value

Returns a character string with "all caps phrases" 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_caps_phrae uses the rm_caps_phrase regex from the regular expression dictionary from the dictionary argument.

replacement

Replacement for matched pattern.

extract

logical. If TRUE the all caps strings 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.

See Also

gsub, stri_extract_all_regex

Other rm_ functions: rm_abbreviation(), rm_between(), rm_bracket(), 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_characters(), rm_repeated_phrases(), rm_repeated_words(), rm_tag(), rm_time(), rm_title_name(), rm_url(), rm_white(), rm_zip()

Examples

x <- c("UGGG! When I use caps I am YELLING!",
   "Or it may mean this is VERY IMPORTANT!",
   "or trying to make a LITTLE SEEM like IT ISN'T LITTLE"
)
rm_caps_phrase(x)
ex_caps_phrase(x)