Remove/Replace/Extract Hash Tags

Usage

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

Description

Remove/replace/extract hash tags from a string.

References

The hash tag regular expression was taken from: http://stackoverflow.com/a/25096474/1000343

Examples

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" ) rm_hash(x)
[1] "@hadley I like for work." [2] "Difference between and , both implement pipeline operators for : http://renkun.me/r/2014/07/26/difference-between-magrittr-and-pipeR.html @timelyportfolio" [3] "Slides from great talk: @ramnath_vaidya: Interactive slides from Interactive Visualization presentation . http://ramnathv.github.io/user2014-rcharts/#1"
rm_hash(rm_tag(x))
[1] "I like for work." [2] "Difference between and , both implement pipeline operators for : http://renkun.me/r/2014/07/26/difference-between-magrittr-and-pipeR.html" [3] "Slides from great talk: : Interactive slides from Interactive Visualization presentation . http://ramnathv.github.io/user2014-rcharts/#1"
rm_hash(x, extract=TRUE)
[[1]] [1] "#rstats" "#ggplot2" [[2]] [1] "#magrittr" "#pipeR" "#rstats" [[3]] [1] "#user2014"
## remove just the hash symbol rm_hash(x, replace="\\3")
[1] "@hadley I like rstats for ggplot2 work." [2] "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" [3] "Slides from great talk: @ramnath_vaidya: Interactive slides from Interactive Visualization presentation user2014. http://ramnathv.github.io/user2014-rcharts/#1"