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. Available
features include: pattern searching (e.g., with 'Java'-like regular
expressions or the 'Unicode' collation algorithm), random string generation,
case mapping, string transliteration, concatenation,
Unicode normalization, date-time formatting and parsing, and many more.