Describe a situation where you had to use escape characters in a regular expression in R. How did you manage it?

  • When matching a string pattern that contains special characters
  • When removing specific characters from a string
  • When replacing a certain pattern with another in a string
  • All of the above
One situation where escape characters are commonly used in regular expressions in R is when matching a string pattern that contains special characters. For example, to match a literal dot (.) or parentheses in a regular expression, you need to escape them with a backslash: .. Another situation is when removing or replacing specific characters in a string using regular expressions. To manage this, I used the appropriate escape sequences to ensure the desired pattern matching or manipulation.
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