Remove/Replace/Extract Person Tags

Usage

rm_tag(text.var, trim = TRUE, clean = TRUE, pattern = "(^|[^@\\w])@(\\w{1,15})\\b", replacement = "", extract = FALSE, ...)

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.

replacement

Replacement for matched pattern.

extract

logical. If TRUE the person tags are extracted into a list of vectors.

...

Other arguments passed to gsub.

Examples

## <strong>Not run</strong>: 
# 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_tag(x)
# rm_tag(rm_hash(x))
# rm_tag(x, extract=TRUE)
# ## <strong>End(Not run)</strong>

See also