Bend or break: strings in R

A common complaint from new users of R is: the string processing notation is ugly. Using paste(,,sep='') to concatenate strings seems clumsy. You are never sure which regular expression dialect grep()/gsub() are really using. Remembering the difference between length() and nchar() is initially difficult. As always things can be improved by using additional libraries (for … Continue reading Bend or break: strings in R