Remove/Replace/Extract Numbers

Usage

rm_number(text.var, trim = !extract, clean = TRUE, pattern = "@rm_number", replacement = "", extract = FALSE, dictionary = getOption("regex.library"), ...)

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. Default, @rm_number uses the rm_number regex from the regular expression dictionary from the dictionary argument.
replacement
Replacement for matched pattern.
extract
logical. If TRUE the numbers are extracted into a list of vectors.
dictionary
A dictionary of canned regular expressions to search within if pattern begins with "@rm_".
...
Other arguments passed to gsub.

Value

Returns a character string with number removed.

Description

Remove/replace/extract number from a string (works on numbers with commas, decimals and negatives).

References

The number regular expression was taken from: http://stackoverflow.com/a/5917250/1000343 authored by Justin Morgan.

Examples

x <- c("-2 is an integer. -4.3 and 3.33 are not.", "123,456 is a lot more than -.2", "hello world -.q") rm_number(x)
[1] "is an integer. and are not." "is a lot more than" "hello world -.q"
rm_number(x, extract=TRUE)
[[1]] [1] "-2" "-4.3" "3.33" [[2]] [1] "123,456" "-.2" [[3]] [1] NA