[Rd] strcapture enhancement

[Michael Lawrence]

Thanks for the suggestion. Checked in that change.

Michael

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:06 AM, William Dunlap via R-devel
<r-devel at r-project.org> wrote:
> The new strcapture function in R-devel is handy, capturing
> the matches to the parenthesized subpatterns in a regular
> expression in the columns of a data.frame, whose column
> names and classes are given by the 'proto' argument.  E.g.,
>
>> p1 <- data.frame(Name="", Number=0)
>> str(strcapture("([[:alpha:]]*) +([[:digit:]]*)", c("Three 3", "Twenty
> 20"), proto=p1))
> 'data.frame':   2 obs. of  2 variables:
>  $ Name  : Factor w/ 2 levels "Three","Twenty": 1 2
>  $ Number: num  3 20
>
> I think it would be even nicer if it constructed its data.frame
> using the check.names=FALSE and stringsAsFactors=FALSE
> arguments.  Then the names and types specified in the proto
> argument would be respected instead of changing them as
> in the following example
>
>> p2 <- data.frame("The Name"="", "The Number"=0, stringsAsFactors=FALSE,
> check.names=FALSE)
>> str(strcapture("([[:alpha:]]*) +([[:digit:]]*)", c("Three 3", "Twenty
> 20"), proto=p2))
> 'data.frame':   2 obs. of  2 variables:
>  $ The.Name  : Factor w/ 2 levels "Three","Twenty": 1 2
>  $ The.Number: num  3 20
>
>
> Bill Dunlap
> TIBCO Software
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