diff --git a/config.json b/config.json
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           "booleans"
         ],
         "status": "wip"
+      },
+      {
+        "slug": "log-levels",
+        "name": "Log Levels",
+        "uuid": "6c85ef11-cd2d-4718-9f75-84c467afb2f9",
+        "concepts": [
+          "strings"
+        ],
+        "prerequisites": [
+          "lists"
+        ],
+        "status": "wip"
       }
     ],
     "practice": [
diff --git a/exercises/concept/log-levels/.docs/hints.md b/exercises/concept/log-levels/.docs/hints.md
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+# Hints
diff --git a/exercises/concept/log-levels/.docs/instructions.md b/exercises/concept/log-levels/.docs/instructions.md
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+# Instructions
+
+In this exercise you'll be processing log-lines.
+
+Each log line is a string formatted as follows: `"[<LEVEL>]: <MESSAGE>"`.
+
+There are three different log levels:
+
+- `INFO`
+- `WARNING`
+- `ERROR`
+
+You have three tasks, each of which will take a log line and ask you to do something with it.
+
+## 1. Get message from a log line
+
+Implement the `message` function to return a log line's message:
+
+```R
+message("[ERROR]: Invalid operation")
+# => "Invalid operation"
+```
+
+Any leading or trailing white space should be removed:
+
+```R
+message("[WARNING]:  Disk almost full\r\n")
+# => "Disk almost full"
+```
+
+## 2. Get log level from a log line
+
+Implement the `log_level` function to return a log line's log level, which should be returned in lowercase:
+
+```R
+log_level("[ERROR]: Invalid operation")
+# => "error"
+```
+
+## 3. Reformat a log line
+
+Implement the `reformat` function that reformats the log line, putting the message first and the log level after it in parentheses:
+
+```R
+reformat("[INFO]: Operation completed")
+# => "Operation completed (info)"
+```
+
+## Note
+
+Please complete this exercise using ony R core functions. You may find internet references to the `stringr` package and functions with a `str_` prefix. Like most third-party packages, this is not available within Exercism.
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diff --git a/exercises/concept/log-levels/.docs/introduction.md b/exercises/concept/log-levels/.docs/introduction.md
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+# Introduction
+
+R makes no distinction between strings and characters, so `"A"` is just a one-character string.
+
+To find the length of a string, use `nchar()`.
+Using `length()` will return the length of the underlying `vector` of strings, typically 1 as in this case:
+
+```R
+> x <- "Some string"
+> length(x) # length of underlying vector
+[1] 1
+> nchar(x) # length of string
+[1] 11
+````
+
+## Constructing strings
+
+To concatenate several strings we have `paste()`.
+The default separator is a space, so override this if necessary.
+
+```R
+> paste("Mon", "Tue", "Wed", sep = "")
+[1] "MonTueWed"
+```
+
+Numbers will be converted to strings as necessary.
+
+There is also `sprintf()`, taken directly from C with identical syntax.
+This allows precise formatting of the output string.
+At its simplest just use `%s` as a placeholder for each string you want to interpolate, then add the value(s) as comma-separated parameters.
+
+```R
+> sprintf("Hello, %s, nice to see you", "Carol")
+[1] "Hello, Carol, nice to see you"
+```
+
+## String parts
+
+For a substring whose position is known:
+
+```R
+> x <- "Some string"
+> substr(x, 3, 6)
+[1] "me s"
+```
+
+The start and end indices are both inclusive.
+
+To split on some separator, such as space:
+
+```R
+> strsplit(x, " ")[[1]]
+[1] "Some"   "string"
+```
+
+One thing to beware of is that this (like several string functions) returns a `list`. 
+If you have not yet unlocked that concept, just add `[[1]]` in double brackets to get the vector in the first element of the list.
+Details will become clearer later in the syllabus.
+
+## Whitespace
+
+Leading and/or trailing whitespace can be removed with `trimws()`:
+
+```R
+> s <- "    messy string   "
+> trimws(s)
+[1] "messy string"
+```
+
+There is a `which = "left"` (or "right") parameter to only trim one end.
diff --git a/exercises/concept/log-levels/.meta/config.json b/exercises/concept/log-levels/.meta/config.json
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+{
+  "authors": ["colinleach"],
+  "contributors": [],
+  "files": {
+    "solution": ["log-levels.R"],
+    "test": ["test_log-levels.R"],
+    "exemplar": [".meta/exemplar.R"]
+  },
+  "forked_from": ["fsharp/log-levels"],
+  "blurb": "Learn basic string manipulation in R by processing a log file."
+}
diff --git a/exercises/concept/log-levels/.meta/design.md b/exercises/concept/log-levels/.meta/design.md
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+# Design
+
+## Goal
+
+The current goal of this exercise is to introduce the student to string-handling finctions in core R.
+
+In an ideal world it would cover `stringr` as the preferred alternative, but Docker seems to be blocking that package in the test runner for now.
+
+## Learning objectives
+
+- Understand `nchar()` versus `length()`
+- Understand `paste()` and `sprintf()` to construct strings.
+- Understand `substr()` and `strsplit()` to get parts of a string.
+- Understand `trimws()` to remove whitespace.
+
+## Out of scope
+
+- `grep()`, `regexexpr()` and `gregexpr()` are postponed to the `regular-expressions` concept.
+- Discussion of `lists` as return values, beyond the necessary minimum.
+
+## Concepts
+
+The concepts this exercise unlocks are:
+
+- `nothingness`
+- `randomness`
+- `regular-expressions`
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+- `vectors`
diff --git a/exercises/concept/log-levels/.meta/exemplar.R b/exercises/concept/log-levels/.meta/exemplar.R
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+# Aiming to solve this early concept exercise without regex knowledge
+# or access to stringr
+#
+# Makes me understand why stringr is so popular!
+
+split_msg <- function(msg) {
+  strsplit(msg, ": ")[[1]]
+}
+
+message <- function(msg) {
+  trimws(split_msg(msg)[2])
+}
+
+log_level <- function(msg) {
+  raw <- tolower(split_msg(msg)[1])
+  len <- nchar(raw)
+  substr(raw, 2, len - 1)
+}
+
+reformat <- function(msg) {
+  paste(message(msg), " (", log_level(msg), ")", sep = "")
+}
diff --git a/exercises/concept/log-levels/log-levels.R b/exercises/concept/log-levels/log-levels.R
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+message <- function(msg) {
+}
+
+log_level <- function(msg) {
+}
+
+reformat <- function(msg) {
+}
diff --git a/exercises/concept/log-levels/test_log-levels.R b/exercises/concept/log-levels/test_log-levels.R
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+source("./log-levels.R")
+library(testthat)
+
+# message
+
+test_that("Error message", {
+  msg <- "[ERROR]: Stack overflow"
+  expect_equal(message(msg), "Stack overflow")
+})
+
+test_that("Warning message", {
+  msg <- "[WARNING]: Disk almost full"
+  expect_equal(message(msg), "Disk almost full")
+})
+
+test_that("Info message", {
+  msg <- "[INFO]: File moved"
+  expect_equal(message(msg), "File moved")
+})
+
+test_that("Message with leading and trailing white space", {
+  msg <- "[WARNING]:   \tTimezone not set  \r\n"
+  expect_equal(message(msg), "Timezone not set")
+})
+
+# log_level
+
+test_that("Error log level", {
+  msg <- "[ERROR]: Disk full"
+  expect_equal(log_level(msg), "error")
+})
+
+test_that("Warning log level", {
+  msg <- "[WARNING]: Unsafe password"
+  expect_equal(log_level(msg), "warning")
+})
+
+test_that("Info log level", {
+  msg <- "[INFO]: Timezone changed"
+  expect_equal(log_level(msg), "info")
+})
+
+# reformat
+
+test_that("Warning reformat", {
+  msg <- "[WARNING]: Decreased performance"
+  expect_equal(reformat(msg), "Decreased performance (warning)")
+})
+
+test_that("Info reformat", {
+  msg <- "[INFO]: Disk defragmented"
+  expect_equal(reformat(msg), "Disk defragmented (info)")
+})
+
+test_that("Reformat with leading and trailing white space", {
+  msg <- "[ERROR]: \t Corrupt disk\t \t \r\n"
+  expect_equal(reformat(msg), "Corrupt disk (error)")
+})