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strip, replace, split

Stripping removes leading or trailing whitespace from text, replacing swaps out unwanted characters or patterns for something else, and splitting breaks a single string into multiple parts based on a delimiter. These are usually among the first steps in cleaning any dataset with free-text or inconsistently formatted columns. The stringr package provides consistent functions for all three operations.

Visit the following resources to learn more:

• @article@How to Split Text Strings in Displayr Using R
• @article@Replace matches with new text
• @article@How to Remove Characters from String in R (3 Examples)