Introduction

This chapter is going to be wicked fun!!!

• Regexs make up the backbone of textual searches.
• “But can’t I just ctrl + f and search my document? Well, yes…but no…
• Regular Expressions translate your search into computer code.

stringr pkgdown site stringr cheatsheet

Pre-Requisites

We will be utilizing the {stringr} package which is part of the core {tidyverse} and also the package {babynames}.

library(tidyverse)
library(babynames)