souravc83 / pystr

Python String Methods in R.

pystr

String operations the Python way: a package for those of us who miss Python's string methods while we're working in R.

Install

From CRAN (Stable Release)

install.packages("pystr")

From GitHub (Latest Development Release)

devtools::install_github("nicolewhite/pystr")

Load the Package

library(pystr)

String Formatting

Most importantly, pystr brings a port of Python's str.format to R with pystr_format.

Indexed Parameters

You can pass in parameters individually:

pystr_format("Hello {1}, my name is {2}.", "World", "Nicole")

## [1] "Hello World, my name is Nicole."

As a vector:

params = c("World", "Nicole")
pystr_format("Hello {1}, my name is {2}.", params)

## [1] "Hello World, my name is Nicole."

Or as a list:

params = list("World", "Nicole")
pystr_format("Hello {1}, my name is {2}.", params)

## [1] "Hello World, my name is Nicole."

Named Parameters

You can pass in named parameters individually:

pystr_format("Hello {thing}, my name is {name}.", thing="World", name="Nicole")

## [1] "Hello World, my name is Nicole."

As a named vector:

params = c(thing="World", name="Nicole")
pystr_format("Hello {thing}, my name is {name}.", params)

## [1] "Hello World, my name is Nicole."

Or as a named list:

params = list(thing="World", name="Nicole")
pystr_format("Hello {thing}, my name is {name}.", params)

## [1] "Hello World, my name is Nicole."

Repeated Parameters

Parameters can be used more than once throughout a string:

pystr_format("The name is {last}. {first} {last}.", last="Bond", first="James")

## [1] "The name is Bond. James Bond."

Replacement Types

Pass in characters and numbers:

pystr_format("Hello {name}, you have {n} new notifications!", name="Nicole", n=3)

## [1] "Hello Nicole, you have 3 new notifications!"

Other Ported Methods

pystr_capitalize

Port of str.capitalize.

pystr_capitalize("ONCE UPON A TIME, ")

## [1] "Once upon a time, "

pystr_center

Port of str.center.

pystr_center("center me", 15, "*")

## [1] "***center me***"

pystr_count

Port of str.count.

pystr_count("abcxyzabc123", "abc")

## [1] 2

pystr_endswith

Port of str.endswith.

pystr_endswith("selfie.jpg", ".jpg")

## [1] TRUE

pystr_endswith("selfie.jpg", c(".jpg", ".png"))

## [1] TRUE

pystr_find

Port of str.find.

pystr_find("12345", "34")

## [1] 3

pystr_index

Port of str.index.

pystr_index("12345", "34")

## [1] 3

pystr_index("12345", "xy")

## Error in pystr_index("12345", "xy"): ValueError

pystr_isalnum

Port of str.isalnum.

pystr_isalnum("abc123")

## [1] TRUE

pystr_isalnum("abc123!")

## [1] FALSE

pystr_isalpha

Port of str.isalpha.

pystr_isalpha("abc")

## [1] TRUE

pystr_isalpha("abc!")

## [1] FALSE

pystr_islower

Port of str.islower.

pystr_islower("all lowercase!")

## [1] TRUE

pystr_islower("All lowercase?")

## [1] FALSE

pystr_isnumeric

Port of str.isnumeric.

pystr_isnumeric("123")

## [1] TRUE

pystr_isnumeric("123!")

## [1] FALSE

pystr_isspace

Port of str.isspace.

pystr_isspace("   ")

## [1] TRUE

pystr_istitle

Port of str.istitle.

pystr_istitle("I Am A Title")

## [1] TRUE

pystr_istitle("I Am not A Title")

## [1] FALSE

pystr_isupper

Port of str.isupper.

pystr_isupper("HELLO!")

## [1] TRUE

pystr_join

Port of str.join.

pystr_join(c("A", "BB", "CCC"))

## [1] "ABBCCC"

pystr_join(c(1, 2, 3), "+")

## [1] "1+2+3"

pystr_ljust

Port of str.ljust.

pystr_ljust("left", 10)

## [1] "left      "

pystr_ljust("left", 10, "*")

## [1] "left******"

pystr_lower

Port of str.lower.

pystr_lower("LOWERCASE ME!")

## [1] "lowercase me!"

pystr_lstrip

Port of str.lstrip.

pystr_lstrip("www.example.com", "w.")

## [1] "example.com"

pystr_maketrans

Port of str.maketrans.

map = pystr_maketrans("abc", "123")
pystr_translate("a blue cat", map)

## [1] "1 2lue 31t"

pystr_partition

Port of str.partition.

pystr_partition("onetwothreeonetwothree", "two")

## [1] "one"              "two"              "threeonetwothree"

pystr_replace

Port of str.replace.

pystr_replace("mississippi", "ss", "X")

## [1] "miXiXippi"

pystr_replace("mississippi", "ss", "X", 1)

## [1] "miXissippi"

pystr_rfind

Port of str.rfind.

pystr_rfind("abcxyzabc", "abc")

## [1] 7

pystr_rindex

Port of str.rindex.

pystr_rindex("abcdab", "ab")

## [1] 5

pystr_rindex("abcdab", "xy")

## Error in pystr_rindex("abcdab", "xy"): ValueError

pystr_rjust

Port of str.rjust.

pystr_rjust("right", 10)

## [1] "     right"

pystr_rjust("right", 10, "*")

## [1] "*****right"

pystr_rpartition

Port of str.rpartition.

pystr_rpartition("onetwothreeonetwothree", "two")

## [1] "onetwothreeone" "two"            "three"

pystr_rsplit

Port of str.rsplit.

pystr_rsplit("a--b--c", "--", 1)

## [1] "a--b" "c"

pystr_rstrip

Port of str.rstrip.

pystr_rstrip("mississippi", "ipz")

## [1] "mississ"

pystr_split

Port of str.split.

pystr_split("1+2+3+4", "+")

## [1] "1" "2" "3" "4"

pystr_split("1+2+3+4", "+", 1)

## [1] "1"     "2+3+4"

pystr_splitlines

Port of str.splitlines.

pystr_splitlines("First\nSecond\nThird")

## [1] "First"  "Second" "Third"

pystr_startswith

Port of str.startswith.

pystr_startswith("http://www.example.com", "http://")

## [1] TRUE

pystr_startswith("http://www.example.com", c("http://", "https://"))

## [1] TRUE

pystr_strip

Port of str.strip.

pystr_strip("    very spacious    ")

## [1] "very spacious"

pystr_strip("www.example.com", "wcom.")

## [1] "example"

pystr_swapcase

Port of str.swapcase.

pystr_swapcase("Swap Me!")

## [1] "sWAP mE!"

pystr_title

Port of str.title.

pystr_title("make me pretty")

## [1] "Make Me Pretty"

pystr_translate

Port of str.translate.

map = pystr_maketrans("abc", "123")
pystr_translate("a blue cat", map)

## [1] "1 2lue 31t"

pystr_upper

Port of str.upper.

pystr_upper("uppercase me!")

## [1] "UPPERCASE ME!"

pystr_zfill

Port of str.zfill.

pystr_zfill("42", 5)

## [1] "00042"

pystr_zfill("-42", 5)

## [1] "-0042"

Methods Not Ported (Yet)

• str.casefold
• str.encode
• str.expandtabs
• str.format_map
• str.isdecimal
• str.isdigit
• str.isidentifier
• str.isprintable