Find and replace entire value in R

Question

I\'m looking for a way to use the find and replace function in R to replace the entire value of a string, rather than just the matching part of the string. I have a dataset with

Answer 1

You can also simply use gsub() and add .* before and after the pattern like this:

string<-"TransRights"
gsub(".*sR.*","HumanRights",string)

The outcome would be

HumanRights