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Background The caret R package has been a staple of machine learning (ML) methods in R for a long time. The name caret stands for “Classification and Regression Training” according to the authors.

In this post I’ll be walking through some basic examples of regex, or regular expressions, and also providing a couple real-world examples. To quote Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund (2017), regex is a “language that allow[s] you to describe patterns in strings.