forstringr

1.0.0

String Manipulation Package for Those Familiar with 'Microsoft Excel'

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Overview

About

Maintained by Ezekiel OgundepoFirst published 2023-02-273 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The goal of 'forstringr' is to enable complex string manipulation in R especially to those more familiar with LEFT(), RIGHT(), and MID() functions in Microsoft Excel. The package combines the power of 'stringr' with other manipulation packages such as 'dplyr' and 'tidyr'.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("forstringr", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("gbganalyst/forstringr")

Development version from gbganalyst/forstringr. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-forstringr

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-forstringr

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-forstringr

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13NOTE

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64
NOTE r-patched-linux-x86_64
NOTE r-release-linux-x86_64
NOTE r-release-macos-arm64
NOTE r-release-macos-x86_64
NOTE r-release-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.20

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Yes

Vignettes

Yes

README

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
3 OK · 11 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Downloads

6.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,119 · ~19/day · ~565/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ gbganalyst/forstringr

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5Forks

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4Releases

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.4.0stringr

Imports (5)

dplyr glue rlangstatstidyselect

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

ggplot2 knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 425 (44%)Rd 373 (39%)Vignettes 148 (15%)Other 11 (1%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 3.0 median / 6 max
Test cases: 10 / 0.20 per code line
Documented parameters: 100%

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

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Tests / Examples

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Functions

9 9 exported

Complexity

3.1 avg / 6 max

Call network

9 nodes / 0 edges

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People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Ezekiel Ogundepo

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Ezekiel Ogundepo

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (2)

Fatimo Adebanjo

Contributor

Olubukunola Oyedele

Contributor

Release timeline

3 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.0Latest
2023-08-07 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.1
2023-04-11 · diff ↗
0.0.1
2023-02-27
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-02-27
Total releases: 3 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Bundled data: 2.0 KB / 2 files
Download size: 168 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet