[R] speed issue: gsub on large data frame

[Jeff Newmiller]

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Simon Pickert <simon.pickert at t-online.de> wrote:
>Hi R’lers,
>
>I’m running into speeding issues, performing a bunch of 
>
>„gsub(patternvector, [token],dataframe$text_column)"
>
>on a data frame containing >4millionentries.
>
>(The “patternvectors“ contain up to 500 elements) 
>
>Is there any better/faster way than performing like 20 gsub commands in
>a row?
>
>
>Thanks!
>Simon
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