Pattern matching and replacement

Function is a wrapper for gsub() which allows to replace more than one pattern.

Usage

gsubAll ( string, old, new)

Arguments

string

a character vector where matches are sought

old

character vector containing strings to be matched in the given character vector named string.

new

a replacement for matched pattern

Value

character vector with replaced patterns

Author

Benjamin Becker

Examples

### replace all numbers by words
txt <- "1 example for 2 reasons in 4 seasons"
gsubAll ( txt, old = as.character(1:4), new = c("one", "two", "three", "four"))
#> [1] "one example for two reasons in four seasons"