stringx

English is the native language for only 5% of the World population. Also, only 17% of us can understand this text. Moreover, the Latin alphabet is the main one for merely 36% of the total. The early computer era, now a very long time ago, was dominated by the US. Due to the proliferation of the internet, smartphones, social media, and other technologies and communication platforms, this is no longer the case. This package replaces base R string functions (such as grep(), tolower(), sprintf(), and strptime()) with ones that fully support the Unicode standards related to natural language and date-time processing. It also fixes some long-standing inconsistencies, and introduces some new, useful features. Thanks to 'ICU' (International Components for Unicode) and 'stringi', they are fast, reliable, and portable across different platforms.

Last 30 days

This package has been downloaded 293 times in the last 30 days. More than a random curiosity, but not quite a blockbuster. Still, it's gaining traction! The following heatmap shows the distribution of downloads per day. Yesterday, it was downloaded 24 times.

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Last 365 days

This package has been downloaded 4,168 times in the last 365 days. Now we’re talking! This work is officially 'heard of in academic circles', just like those wild research papers on synthetic bananas. The day with the most downloads was Feb 11, 2025 with 63 downloads.

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