Wrapper around stringr::str_replace_all()

Replace all occurance of 'pattern' in all non numeric columns from a tbl.

tbl_replace_string(tbl, pattern, replacement)

Arguments

tbl	a tbl.
pattern	pattern to look for. Will be passed to argument pattern to function stringr::str_replace_all().
replacement	a character vector of replacements. Will be passed to argument replacement to function stringr::str_replace_all().

Value

a tbl.

See also

stringr::str_replace_all()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
 tbl <- tibble::tibble(x = c(letters[1:5] ,letters[1:5] ) ,
         y = c(LETTERS[1:5],LETTERS[1:5]) , z = 1:10 )
 tbl %>% tbl_replace_string(pattern = "a" , replacement = "a_changed")
 tbl %>% tbl_replace_string("[aeiou]", toupper)
 tbl %>% tbl_replace_string("([aeiou])", "")
 tbl %>% tbl_replace_string(c("a", "e", "i"), "-")
 tbl %>% tbl_replace_string("b", NA_character_)

}