Character String Processing Facilities
Description
Fast, correct, consistent, portable and convenient character
string/text processing in every locale and any native encoding.
Owing to the use of the 'ICU' (International Components for Unicode)
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.