Question

Say for example, I have a character vector

a
[1] “hi come asap, the show is awsome” “I am suffering from cold”
d
[1] “asap” “awsome” “cold” “lol” “rofl”

I should replace any word(from “d”) if found in “a” with empty space. How do I implement in R?

Answer 1

I think I understand but could be wrong. You could try:

a  <- c("hi come asap, the $#!+ show is awsome", "I am suffering from cold")
d <- c("asap", "awsome", "cold", "lol", "rofl")

library(qdap)
mgsub(d, "", a)

Yields:

> mgsub(d, "", a)
[1] "hi come , the $#!+ show is" "I am suffering from"