textclean (version 0.9.3)

replace_hash: Replace Hashes

Description

Replaces Twitter style hash tags (e.g., '#rstats').

Usage

replace_hash(x, pattern = qdapRegex::grab("rm_hash"), replacement = "", ...)

Arguments

x

The text variable.

pattern

Character time regex string to be matched in the given character vector.

replacement

A function to operate on the extracted matches or a character string which is a replacement for the matched pattern.

…

ignored.

Value

Returns a vector with hashes replaced.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
x <- c("@hadley I like #rstats for #ggplot2 work.",
    "Difference between #magrittr and #pipeR, both implement pipeline operators for #rstats: 
        http://renkun.me/r/2014/07/26/difference-between-magrittr-and-pipeR.html @timelyportfolio",
    "Slides from great talk: @ramnath_vaidya: Interactive slides from Interactive Visualization 
        presentation #user2014. http://ramnathv.github.io/user2014-rcharts/#1"
)

replace_hash(x)
replace_hash(x, replacement = '<<HASH>>')
replace_hash(x, replacement = '$3')

## Replacement with a function
replace_hash(x, 
    replacement = function(x){
        paste0('{{', gsub('^#', 'TOPIC: ', x), '}}')
    }
)
# }