Is there any way to detect a specific word and replace a whole string with another in R language?

Question

I want to replace char value in R with another, it should be like this:

The key word to work is "Texas". And there is any way that I can do it with multiple files at once.

I have tried like this: df[df=="121 Texas"]<-"Texas" but it's clearly not smart at all when it comes to work with many dataframe at the same time.

Please don't post links to images! Try posting e.g. the output from `dput(head(data))` instead. — diomedesdata, Nov 23 '22 at 06:31
I'm not sure about your problem cos it's not well explanatory enough but you can try and check the glue package — Yomi.blaze93, Nov 23 '22 at 07:07
maybe [this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60129058/stringr-str-replace-on-multiple-patterns-and-replacements) will help you — D.J, Nov 23 '22 at 07:09

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 23 '22 at 07:07

Let's say you had a dataframe with a column named "Original" and you wanted to replae all the entries in that column that contained the letters "Texas" as a substring with just the character value "Texas":

  df$Original[ grepl("Texas", df$Original) ] <- "Texas"

The grepl is one of the regex functions. It returns a logical value. The "[" function on the LHS of "<-" (technically the "[<-" function) can accept a logical index and only do the replacements for those items that register TRUE in the grepl test.

Is there any way to detect a specific word and replace a whole string with another in R language?

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