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stringr 1.2.0.9000

stringr 1.2.0

API changes

  • str_match_all() now returns NA if an optional group doesn't match (previously it returned ""). This is more consistent with str_match() and other match failures (#134).

New features

  • In str_replace(), replacement can now be a function that is called once for each match and who's return value is used to replace the match.

  • New str_which() mimics grep() (#129).

  • A new vignette (vignette("regular-expressions")) describes the details of the regular expressions supported by stringr. The main vignette (vignette("stringr")) has been updated to give a high-level overview of the package.

Minor improvements and bug fixes

  • str_order() and str_sort() gain explicit numeric argument for sorting mixed numbers and strings.

  • str_replace_all() now throws an error if replacement is not a character vector. If replacement is NA_character_ it replaces the complete string with replaces with NA (#124).

  • All functions that take a locale (e.g. str_to_lower() and str_sort()) default to "en" (English) to ensure that the default is consistent across platforms.

stringr 1.1.0

  • Add sample datasets: fruit, words and sentences.

  • fixed(), regex(), and coll() now throw an error if you use them with anything other than a plain string (#60). I've clarified that the replacement for perl() is regex() not regexp() (#61). boundary() has improved defaults when splitting on non-word boundaries (#58, @lmullen).

  • str_detect() now can detect boundaries (by checking for a str_count() > 0) (#120). str_subset() works similarly.

  • str_extract() and str_extract_all() now work with boundary(). This is particularly useful if you want to extract logical constructs like words or sentences. str_extract_all() respects the simplify argument when used with fixed() matches.

  • str_subset() now respects custom options for fixed() patterns (#79, @gagolews).

  • str_replace() and str_replace_all() now behave correctly when a replacement string contains $s, \\\\1, etc. (#83, #99).

  • str_split() gains a simplify argument to match str_extract_all() etc.

  • str_view() and str_view_all() create HTML widgets that display regular expression matches (#96).

  • word() returns NA for indexes greater than number of words (#112).

stringr 1.0.0

  • stringr is now powered by stringi instead of base R regular expressions. This improves unicode and support, and makes most operations considerably faster. If you find stringr inadequate for your string processing needs, I highly recommend looking at stringi in more detail.

  • stringr gains a vignette, currently a straight forward update of the article that appeared in the R Journal.

  • str_c() now returns a zero length vector if any of its inputs are zero length vectors. This is consistent with all other functions, and standard R recycling rules. Similarly, using str_c("x", NA) now yields NA. If you want "xNA", use str_replace_na() on the inputs.

  • str_replace_all() gains a convenient syntax for applying multiple pairs of pattern and replacement to the same vector:

    input <- c("abc", "def")
str_replace_all(input, c("[ad]" = "!", "[cf]" = "?"))

  • str_match() now returns NA if an optional group doesn't match (previously it returned ""). This is more consistent with str_extract() and other match failures.

  • New str_subset() keeps values that match a pattern. It's a convenient wrapper for x[str_detect(x)] (#21, @jiho).

  • New str_order() and str_sort() allow you to sort and order strings in a specified locale.

  • New str_conv() to convert strings from specified encoding to UTF-8.

  • New modifier boundary() allows you to count, locate and split by character, word, line and sentence boundaries.

  • The documentation got a lot of love, and very similar functions (e.g. first and all variants) are now documented together. This should hopefully make it easier to locate the function you need.

  • ignore.case(x) has been deprecated in favour of fixed|regex|coll(x, ignore.case = TRUE), perl(x) has been deprecated in favour of regex(x).

  • str_join() is deprecated, please use str_c() instead.

stringr 0.6.2

  • fixed path in str_wrap example so works for more R installations.

  • remove dependency on plyr

stringr 0.6.1

  • Zero input to str_split_fixed returns 0 row matrix with n columns

  • Export str_join

stringr 0.6

  • new modifier perl that switches to Perl regular expressions

  • str_match now uses new base function regmatches to extract matches - this should hopefully be faster than my previous pure R algorithm

stringr 0.5

  • new str_wrap function which gives strwrap output in a more convenient format

  • new word function extract words from a string given user defined separator (thanks to suggestion by David Cooper)

  • str_locate now returns consistent type when matching empty string (thanks to Stavros Macrakis)

  • new str_count counts number of matches in a string.

  • str_pad and str_trim receive performance tweaks - for large vectors this should give at least a two order of magnitude speed up

  • str_length returns NA for invalid multibyte strings

  • fix small bug in internal recyclable function

stringr 0.4

  • all functions now vectorised with respect to string, pattern (and where appropriate) replacement parameters
  • fixed() function now tells stringr functions to use fixed matching, rather than escaping the regular expression. Should improve performance for large vectors.
  • new ignore.case() modifier tells stringr functions to ignore case of pattern.
  • str_replace renamed to str_replace_all and new str_replace function added. This makes str_replace consistent with all functions.
  • new str_sub<- function (analogous to substring<-) for substring replacement
  • str_sub now understands negative positions as a position from the end of the string. -1 replaces Inf as indicator for string end.
  • str_pad side argument can be left, right, or both (instead of center)
  • str_trim gains side argument to better match str_pad
  • stringr now has a namespace and imports plyr (rather than requiring it)

stringr 0.3

  • fixed() now also escapes |
  • str_join() renamed to str_c()
  • all functions more carefully check input and return informative error messages if not as expected.
  • add invert_match() function to convert a matrix of location of matches to locations of non-matches
  • add fixed() function to allow matching of fixed strings.

stringr 0.2

  • str_length now returns correct results when used with factors
  • str_sub now correctly replaces Inf in end argument with length of string
  • new function str_split_fixed returns fixed number of splits in a character matrix
  • str_split no longer uses strsplit to preserve trailing breaks