stri_stats_general: General Statistics for a Character Vector
Description
This function gives general statistics for a character vector, e.g., obtained by loading a text file with the readLines or stri_read_lines function, where each text line’ is represented by a separate string.
Usage
stri_stats_general(str)
Arguments
|
character vector to be aggregated |
Details
None of the strings may contain \r or \n characters, otherwise you will get at error.
Below by ‘white space’ we mean the Unicode binary property WHITE_SPACE, see stringi-search-charclass.
Value
Returns an integer vector with the following named elements:
Lines- number of lines (number of non-missing strings in the vector);LinesNEmpty- number of lines with at least one non-WHITE_SPACEcharacter;Chars- total number of Unicode code points detected;CharsNWhite- number of Unicode code points that are notWHITE_SPACEs;… (Other stuff that may appear in future releases of stringi).
See Also
The official online manual of stringi at https://stringi.gagolewski.com/
Gagolewski M., stringi: Fast and portable character string processing in R, Journal of Statistical Software 103(2), 2022, 1-59, doi:10.18637/jss.v103.i02
Other stats: stri_stats_latex()
Examples
s <- c('Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit.',
'nibh augue, suscipit a, scelerisque sed, lacinia in, mi.',
'Cras vel lorem. Etiam pellentesque aliquet tellus.',
'')
stri_stats_general(s)
## Lines LinesNEmpty Chars CharsNWhite
## 4 3 163 142