stringi: THE String Processing Package for R

stringi (pronounced “stringy”, IPA [strinɡi]) is THE R package for very fast, portable, correct, consistent, and convenient string/text processing in any locale or character encoding.

—by Marek Gagolewski

Thanks to ICU, stringi fully supports a wide range of Unicode standards.

It gives you a multitude of functions for:

  • string concatenation, padding, wrapping,

  • substring extraction,

  • pattern searching (e.g., with ICU Java-like regular expressions),

  • collation and sorting,

  • random string generation,

  • case mapping,

  • string transliteration,

  • Unicode normalisation,

  • date-time formatting and parsing,

and many more.

stringi is among the most often downloaded R packages. downloads1 downloads2

You can obtain it from CRAN by calling:

install.packages("stringi")

stringi’s source code is hosted on GitHub. It has been released under the open source BSD-3-clause license.

The package’s API was inspired by Hadley Wickham’s stringr package (and since 2015 stringr is powered by stringi). Moreover, Hadley suggested many new package features. Thanks! The contributions from Bartlomiej Tartanus and many others is greatly appreciated.

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