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., with ICU Java-like regular
expressions or the Unicode Collation Algorithm), random string generation,
case mapping, string transliteration, concatenation,
Unicode normalization, date-time formatting and parsing, etc.