Strings and regular expressions

Readings

• Read chapter 14: Strings of R for Data Science (2e)
• Read chapter 15: Regular expressions of R for Data Science (2e)

Guiding questions

• What are strings?
• How can you extract and subset information from strings?
• What are regular expressions?
• What is a pattern?

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