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Counting Character Occurrences in R

Steven Sanderson counts the ways:

Counting the occurrences of a specific character within a string is a common task in data processing and text manipulation. Whether you’re working with base R or leveraging the power of packages like stringr or stringi, R provides efficient ways to accomplish this. In this post, we’ll explore how to do this using three different methods.

Read on for three separate examples.