stri_sub() and stri_sub<-() should accept lists about stringi HOT 11 CLOSED

x <- c("a b c")
stri_sub(x, c(1, 3), c(1, 3)) <- c("A", "B")
x
# [1] "A b c" "a B c"

Is there an easy way to get "A B c"  ?

# toy data and split matrix
x <- c("abcdefgh", "ijklmnop")
split <- matrix(1:8, ncol = 2, byrow = TRUE)

[[1]]
[1] "ab" "cd" "ef" "gh"
[[2]]
[1] "ij" "kl" "mn" "op"

     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
[1,] "ab" "cd" "ef" "gh"
[2,] "ij" "kl" "mn" "op"

library(stringi)
x <- "abcdefgh"
str_sub(x, c(1, 3), c(1, 3))  <- c("X", "Y")
x
#> [1] "Xbcdefgh" "abYdefgh"

> stri_sub_replace_all("a b c", c(1, 3, 5), c(1, 3, 5), value=c("A", "B", "C"))
[1] "A B C"

> x <- c("12 3456 789", "abc", "", NA, "667")
> stri_sub_all(x, stri_locate_all_regex(x, "[0-9]+", omit_no_match=TRUE)) <- "***"
> print(x)
[1] "*** *** ***" "abc"         ""            NA            "***"  

> x <- c("abcdefgh", "ijklmnop")
> split <- matrix(1:8, ncol = 2, byrow = TRUE)
> split
     [,1] [,2]
[1,]    1    2
[2,]    3    4
[3,]    5    6
[4,]    7    8
> stri_sub_all(x, split)
[[1]]
[1] "ab" "cd" "ef" "gh"

[[2]]
[1] "ij" "kl" "mn" "op"
> stri_list2matrix(stri_sub_all(x, split), byrow=TRUE)
     [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4]
[1,] "ab" "cd" "ef" "gh"
[2,] "ij" "kl" "mn" "op"