Description |
Allows for fast, correct, consistent, portable, as well as convenient
character string/text processing in every locale and any native encoding.
Owing to the use of the ICU library, the package provides R users with
platform-independent functions known to Java, Perl, Python, PHP, and Ruby
programmers. Available features include: pattern searching (e.g., with ICU
Java-like regular expressions or the Unicode Collation Algorithm), random
string generation, case mapping, string transliteration, concatenation,
Unicode normalization, date-time formatting and parsing, etc.
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