Remove/Replace/Extract Abbreviations

Usage

rm_abbreviation(text.var, trim = !extract, clean = TRUE, pattern = "@rm_abbreviation", 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_abbreviation uses the rm_abbreviation regex from the regular expression dictionary from the dictionary argument.
replacement
Replacement for matched pattern.
extract
logical. If TRUE the abbreviations 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 abbreviations removed.

Description

Remove/replace/extract abbreviations from a string containing lower case or capital letters followed by a period and then an optional space (this must be repeated 2 or more times).

Examples

x <- c("I want $2.33 at 2:30 p.m. to go to A.n.p.", "She will send it A.S.A.P. (e.g. as soon as you can) said I.", "Hello world.", "In the U. S. A.") rm_abbreviation(x)
[1] "I want $2.33 at 2:30 to go to" "She will send it ( as soon as you can) said I." [3] "Hello world." "In the"
rm_abbreviation(x, extract=TRUE)
[[1]] [1] "p.m." "A.n.p." [[2]] [1] "A.S.A.P." "e.g." [[3]] [1] NA [[4]] [1] "U. S. A."