How to Replace a Substring in String in R


How to Replace a Substring in String in R ?

Answer

To replace a substring in a string in R, you can use the `sub()` function or regular expressions.



✐ Examples

1 Replace 'World' with 'Universe' in "Hello World"

In this example,

  1. We create a string named str with a value of "Hello World".
  2. We use the sub() function to replace the substring "World" with "Universe".
  3. Finally, we print the modified string str.

R Program

str <- "Hello World"
str <- sub("World", "Universe", str)
cat(str, '\n')

Output

Hello Universe

Summary

In this tutorial, we learned How to Replace a Substring in String in R language with well detailed examples.




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