Aspects
Stringi
Stringi is THE R package for fast, correct, consistent and convenient string/text processing in each locale and any native character encoding
Stringr
An R package for string manipulation.
Others
| Quality | Example |
|---|---|
| More human-readable |
"Stringr provides more human-readable wrappers around the base r functions though as of dec 2014 the development version has a branch built on top of stringi mentioned below" from question "How to remove all whitespace from a string?" |
| Newer |
"Stringr is newer based on stringi internally and is often even faster" from question "How to speed up this string split operation within data.table" |