slugify

Create Slug Strings for SEO

Description

Most blogging platforms turn title phrases into slugs for better SEO. Tools are provided to turn phrases into slugs.

What’s Inside The Tin

The following functions are implemented:

• slugify_native: Native R slugify (with the help of stringi)

• slugify: Slugify a string

Installation

install.packages("slugify", repos = c("https://cinc.rud.is", "https://cloud.r-project.org/"))
# or
remotes::install_git("https://git.rud.is/hrbrmstr/slugify.git")
# or
remotes::install_git("https://git.sr.ht/~hrbrmstr/slugify")
# or
remotes::install_gitlab("hrbrmstr/slugify")
# or
remotes::install_bitbucket("hrbrmstr/slugify")
# or
remotes::install_github("hrbrmstr/slugify")

NOTE: To use the ‘remotes’ install options you will need to have the {remotes} package installed.

Usage

library(slugify)

# current version
packageVersion("slugify")
## [1] '0.2.0'

slugify("New Package — {cdccovidview} — To Work with the U.S. CDC’s New COVID-19 Trackers: COVIDView and COVID-NET")
## [1] "new-package-cdccovidview-to-work-with-the-us-cdcs-new-covid-19-trackers-covidview-and-covid-net"

slugify("New Package — {cdccovidview} — To Work with the U.S. CDC’s New COVID-19 Trackers: COVIDView and COVID-NET", replacement = "@")
## [1] "new@package@cdccovidview@to@work@with@the@us@cdcs@new@covid19@trackers@covidview@and@covidnet"

slugify("R is great!", remove = "/[Rr]/g")
## [1] "is-geat"

slugify_native("New Package — {cdccovidview} — To Work with the U.S. CDC’s New COVID-19 Trackers: COVIDView and COVID-NET")
## [1] "new-package-cdccovidview-to-work-with-the-us-cdcs-new-covid-19-trackers-covidview-and-covid-net"

slugify_native("New Package — {cdccovidview} — To Work with the U.S. CDC’s New COVID-19 Trackers: COVIDView and COVID-NET", repl = "@")
## [1] "new@package@cdccovidview@to@work@with@the@us@cdcs@new@covid-19@trackers@covidview@and@covid-net"

microbenchmark::microbenchmark(
  slugify_native("New Package — {cdccovidview} — To Work with the U.S. CDC’s New COVID-19 Trackers: COVIDView and COVID-NET"),
  slugify("New Package — {cdccovidview} — To Work with the U.S. CDC’s New COVID-19 Trackers: COVIDView and COVID-NET"),
  control = list(warmup = 10)
)
## Unit: microseconds
##                                                                                                                         expr
##  slugify_native("New Package — {cdccovidview} — To Work with the U.S. CDC’s New COVID-19 Trackers: COVIDView and COVID-NET")
##         slugify("New Package — {cdccovidview} — To Work with the U.S. CDC’s New COVID-19 Trackers: COVIDView and COVID-NET")
##      min       lq     mean   median       uq      max neval
##  402.661 423.4725 448.0902 444.4745 465.0420  573.784   100
##  474.337 512.2340 557.9481 536.2560 565.6155 1380.351   100

slugify Metrics

Lang	# Files	(%)	LoC	(%)	Blank lines	(%)	# Lines	(%)
R	6	0.86	130	0.88	25	0.52	32	0.48
Rmd	1	0.14	18	0.12	23	0.48	35	0.52

clock Package Metrics for slugify

Code of Conduct

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.