String in R

Any values provided by the user in single quote ‘’ or double quotes “” compiler treats as string

Syntax

firstname<-"Rupesh"

print(firstname)

String Manipulation

·         paste() concatenates strings.

·         str_c() (or stringr) .

·         cat() prints and concatenates strings.

#Function without input/output

vectorVariable <- c("Ram","Mohan","Shyam")

paste(vectorVariable,collapse=" ")

cat(c("Primary","Secondary","Tersary"), sep = "+")

Splitting a string

·         strsplit splits the string using specific literal.

fullname<-"Rupesh.Kumar.Rupak"

strsplit(fullname, "\\.")

#To unlist the splitted values

unlist(strsplit(fullname, "\\."))

Formatter Syntax

 format(x, digits, nsmall, scientific, width, justify = c("left", "right", "centre", "none"))

 demoformat <- format("WelcometoR", width = 8, justify = "c")

print(demoformat)