qdapRegex (version 0.7.8)

rm_repeated_characters: Remove/Replace/Extract Words With Repeating Characters

Description

Remove/replace/extract words with repeating characters. The word must contain characters, each repeating at east 2 times

Usage

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

Value

Returns a character string with percentages 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_repeated_characters uses the rm_repeated_characters regex from the regular expression dictionary from the dictionary argument.

replacement

Replacement for matched pattern.

extract

logical. If TRUE the words with repeating characters 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.

Author

stackoverflow's vks and Tyler Rinker <[e-mail]>.

References

https://stackoverflow.com/a/29438461/1000343

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_hash(), rm_nchar_words(), rm_non_ascii(), rm_non_words(), rm_number(), rm_percent(), rm_phone(), rm_postal_code(), rm_repeated_phrases(), rm_repeated_words(), rm_tag(), rm_time(), rm_title_name(), rm_url(), rm_white(), rm_zip()

Examples

x <- "aaaahahahahaha that was a good joke peep and pepper and pepe"
rm_repeated_characters(x)
ex_repeated_characters(x)