Replace Placeholders with Values — replace_with

Replaces placeholder text in a character vector with user specified values.

replace_with_values(
  x,
  values,
  placeholder = function(i) {
     paste0("[[", i, "]]")
 },
  ...
)

Arguments

x: A character vector
values: A vector of values with which to replace placeholder text.
placeholder: A function defining how to identify placeholder text based on the index position of the vector values.
...: Additional parameters for the placeholder function.

Examples

# Character vector with placeholder text
# '[[i]]' for the ith element to replace
x <- c( 'Value: [[1]]', 'Value: [[2]]' )
replace_with_values( x, c( 1, 2 ) )
#> [1] "Value: 1" "Value: 2"

# Custom function to replace different
# placeholder text
placeholder <- function( i ) paste0( '***', LETTERS[i] )
x <- c( 'Value: ***A', 'Value: ***B' )
replace_with_values( x, c( 1, 2 ), placeholder )
#> [1] "Value: 1" "Value: 2"