I have a dataframe with almost a million rows which has one column
with strings. That column has several entries with the words "South",
"North", "East" and "West" which I would like to replace with S, N, E,
and W, respectively. Obviously, I can use gsub multiple times df
$col2 <- gsub("West", "W", df$col2) which will require multiple scans
of the column.
Is there a succinct approach where all the replacements can be done
with a single scan? Thanks.
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