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R Object-oriented Programming

By : Black
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R Object-oriented Programming

By: Black

Overview of this book

This book is designed for people with some experience in basic programming practices. It is also assumed that they have some basic experience using R and are familiar using the command line in an R environment. Our primary goal is to raise a beginner to a more advanced level to make him/her more comfortable creating programs and extending R to solve common problems.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
R Object-oriented Programming
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
Calculating Probabilities and Random Numbers
Package Management
Index

Chapter 5. Character and String Operations

This chapter will provide you with a broad overview of the operations available for the manipulation of character and string objects. This is a relatively concise chapter, and the focus is on basic operations. There are roughly two parts in this chapter:

  • Basic string operations: This section gives you a broad overview of the most basic string operations

  • Regular expressions: This section gives you a brief introduction of three commands that make use of regular expressions