Remove/Replace/Extract URLs

Usage

rm_url(text.var, trim = TRUE, clean = TRUE, pattern = "(http[^ ]*)|(www\\.[^ ]*)", 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 URLs are extracted into a list of vectors.

...

Other arguments passed to gsub.

Examples

## <strong>Not run</strong>: 
# x <- " I like www.talkstats.com and http://stackoverflow.com"
# rm_url(x)
# rm_url(x, replacement = '<a href="\\1" target="_blank">\\1</a>')
# rm_url(x, extract=TRUE)
# ## <strong>End(Not run)</strong>

See also