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How to Extract Citation from a Body of Text

March 26, 2012 | Kay Cichini

Say, you have a text and you want to retrieve the cited names and years of publication. You wouldn't want to this by hand, wouldn't you?Try the following approach:(the text sample comes from THIS freely available publication)library(stringr)(txt

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..Some More Regex Examples Added to Collection

November 25, 2011 | Kay Cichini

Find the below examples added to my list of regex-examples HERE. Read more »

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Some Simple but Propably Useful Regex Examples with R-Package stringr…

November 3, 2011 | Kay Cichini

I found that examples for the use of regex in R are rather rare. Thus, I will provide some examples from my own learning materials - mostly stolen from the help pages, with small but maybe illustrative adaptions.ps: I will extent this list of examples...

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R talk on regular expressions (regex)

October 6, 2011 | Scott Chamberlain

Regular expressions are a powerful in any language to manipulate, search, etc. data. For example:__ fruit fruit[1] "apple" "banana" "pear" "pineapple"__ grep("a", fruit) # there is an ...

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Testing for valid variable names

July 3, 2011 | richierocks

I have something a fondness for ridiculous variable names, so it’s useful to be able to check whether my latest concoction is legitimate. More so if it is automatically generated. Not having an is_valid_variable_name function is one of those odd omissions from R, and the assign ... [Read more...]

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How to Extract Citation from a Body of Text

..Some More Regex Examples Added to Collection

Some Simple but Propably Useful Regex Examples with R-Package stringr…

R talk on regular expressions (regex)

Testing for valid variable names

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