Word Analysis using R studio

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To clarify, R is the language, and RStudio is just the IDE (see FAQ below for disambiguation). Since this question isn't about the IDE itself, I'm going to move it to General.

Differentiating R from RStudio

Aside: goals for this thread

I'm hoping this will help people disambiguate R from RStudio, and also help with getting questions in the right category. This is a bit of a mashup of the times I've tried to explain this in individual threads, so please feel free to add to this topic for further clarification/point out corrections, etc.

Before putting a code-related question in the #rstudio-ide category or using the rstudio tag, it's helpful to ask yourself: Does this work in the regular R GUI, but not when you're in RStudio? If you're using RStudio, you're using R — RStudio is just an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) in which you are using the R language. (On of my favourite fi…

What you're describing sounds like a good use-case for grepl() or a similar string-matching function which:

search for matches to argument pattern within each element of a character vector

str_detect() from the stringr package does ~ the same thing.

The chapter on strings from R for Data Science might be worth looking at.