How to Replace Multiple Strings to a Single String

Asked Jun 10 '19 at 07:08

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I have a character vector comprising:

male, maLe, Male, MALE, ma8le characters. I want to replace the above with "Male" How to do this in R

I tried 'sub', 'gsub', 'str_replace'. The solution must be Similar to python given below:

df['gender'].replace(["male", "maLe", "Male", "MALE", "ma8le"], ["Male","Male","Male","Male","Male"], inplace = True)

I need to perform the same in R

gend_cor<- c("male", "maLe", "Male", "MALE", "ma8le")

data$gender <- gsub(gend_cor, "Male", data$gender)

My expected output is If I enter the above "gend_cor", it must return Male instead of the other wrong words

edited Jun 10 '19 at 07:11

Sotos

asked Jun 10 '19 at 07:08

Ravi

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`gsub(paste0(gend_cor, collapse = "|"), "Male", data$gender)` – Ronak Shah Jun 10 '19 at 07:10
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You can try `replace`, i.e. `df$Gender <- repalce(df$gender, df$gender %in% gend_cor, 'Male')` – Sotos Jun 10 '19 at 07:11

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