Any plans to implement re2_extract?

[jjesusfilho]

Congratulations for the package, re2_detect and re2_replace are much faster than their stringr and stringi counterparts.

I haven't seen a re2_extract similar to str_extract stringr. I can get the same results with as.vector(re2_match(...)) or with re2_extract_replace(text,"(pattern)", "\\1"), but it turns out to be slower than str_extract.

Also, the back references in the re2_extract_replace need double backslashes.

Finally, the development version didn't install on both Mac and Linux, only the cran version.

[girishji]

I'll look into re2_extract when I get some time.
Strange, dev version should install on Mac since I develop on Mac and it is the same code. I also tested on debian.