Strip out the first several characters from a column

Strip out the first several characters from a column

get_prefix(.x, .col, .len)

Arguments

.x

the input data frame

.col

the character column to extract the prefix from

.len

the length of the prefix

Value

a new data frame with a column, “prefix“ inserted before “.col“

Examples

hiRx:::get_prefix(
    tibble::tribble(~Text, "hello", "world"),
    Text,
    3
)