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 See a complete list on the cheatsheet:
 
-<a href="https://github.com/rstudio/cheatsheets/blob/master/strings.pdf"><img src="man/figures/cheatsheet-thumb.png" width="300" height="232"/></a>  
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 Most string functions work with regular expressions, a concise language for describing patterns of text. For example, the regular expression `"[aeiou]"` matches any single character that is a vowel:
 
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 See a complete list on the
 cheatsheet:
 
-<a href="https://github.com/rstudio/cheatsheets/blob/master/strings.pdf"><img src="man/figures/cheatsheet-thumb.png" width="300" height="232"/></a>
+<a href="https://github.com/rstudio/cheatsheets/blob/master/strings.pdf"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rstudio/cheatsheets/master/pngs/thumbnails/strings-cheatsheet-thumbs.png" width="630" height="242"/></a>
 
 Most string functions work with regular expressions, a concise language
 for describing patterns of text. For example, the regular expression
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