How to Reverse a string in R

Question

I\'m trying to teach myself R and in doing some sample problems I came across the need to reverse a string.

Here\'s what I\'ve tried so far but the paste operation d

Answer 1

stringi has had this function for quite a long time:

stringi::stri_reverse("abcdef")
## [1] "fedcba"

Also note that it's vectorized:

stringi::stri_reverse(c("a", "ab", "abc"))
## [1] "a"   "ba"  "cba"