Remove/Replace/Extract All Caps Phrases

Usage

rm_caps_phrase(text.var, trim = !extract, clean = TRUE, pattern = "@rm_caps_phrase", replacement = "", extract = FALSE, dictionary = getOption("regex.library"), ...)

Arguments

text.var
The text variable.
trim
logical. If TRUE removes leading and trailing white spaces.
clean
trim logical. If TRUE extra white spaces and escaped character will be removed.
pattern
A character string containing a regular expression (or character string for fixed = TRUE) to be matched in the given character vector. Default, @rm_caps_phrae uses the rm_caps_phrase regex from the regular expression dictionary from the dictionary argument.
replacement
Replacement for matched pattern.
extract
logical. If TRUE the all caps strings are extracted into a list of vectors.
dictionary
A dictionary of canned regular expressions to search within if pattern begins with "@rm_".
...
Other arguments passed to gsub.

Value

Returns a character string with "all caps phrases" removed.

Description

Remove/replace/extract 'all caps' phrases containing 1 or more consecutive upper case letters from a string. If one word phrase the word must be 3+ letters long.

Examples

x <- c("UGGG! When I use caps I am YELLING!", "Or it may mean this is VERY IMPORTANT!", "or trying to make a LITTLE SEEM like IT ISN'T LITTLE" ) rm_caps_phrase(x)
[1] "! When I use caps I am !" "Or it may mean this is !" "or trying to make a like"
rm_caps_phrase(x, extract=TRUE)
[[1]] [1] "UGGG" "YELLING" [[2]] [1] "VERY IMPORTANT" [[3]] [1] "LITTLE SEEM" "IT ISN'T LITTLE"